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Nefarious Tongues · Ingested

EXERCISE 13 OF 61
Join Part F to Break 3 (bars 15-17)
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PART F
BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART U
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesHMXIR+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nefarious Tongues on drums

126 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-17, snare through bars 18-32 and toms through bars 33-34, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 18 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-------|
Nefarious Tongues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 25, 33, 34, 38, 47, 51 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-25 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-40 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-52 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nefarious Tongues?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nefarious Tongues hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Nefarious Tongues?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 25, 33, 34, 38, 47, 51 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED