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Nena · Sexy Zebras

Nena · Sexy Zebras
EXERCISE 16 OF 26
3-bar fill at bar 66
93 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART C
PART C
PART C
5 groovesDCGS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nena on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-60, toms through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-89, silence through bars 90-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-28, 41-55 and 57, and 3 more places -- 44% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Nena -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 66, 67, 68 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-44 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-89 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nena?

128 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 Nena hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Nena?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 66, 67, 68 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED