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Nemo · Nightwish

EXERCISE 24 OF 46
Fill at bar 76 (a small one)
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0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBCLQU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nemo on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, silence through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-61 and silence through bars 62-68, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 25-32 and 41-47, and 5 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Nemo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 48, 60, 76 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-25 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-57 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-74 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nemo?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Nemo hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nemo?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 48, 60, 76 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED