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Nemophilia · mapleshed

Nemophilia · mapleshed
EXERCISE 10 OF 69
Groove V -- Part V (a two-bar phrase)
32 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART B
BREAK
PART H
PART N
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLZVBAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nemophilia on drums

127 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-17, silence through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-49, silence through bars 50-59 and toms through bars 60-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 91-97 and 99-105 -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91               92
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|x-x---x---x-x---|
Nemophilia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 32 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- L -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-38 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-46 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nemophilia?

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

Is Nemophilia hard to play on drums?

64 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Nemophilia?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 32 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED