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Neo Folk 2 · Abylith

EXERCISE 31 OF 71
Join Part P to Part U (bars 72-74)
131 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART U
PART F
PART P
PART U
PART U
PART AD
PART AD
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAGFUADB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neo Folk 2 on drums

201 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 50 BPM, 12:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
50 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
12:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, toms through bars 50-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-62, hi-hat through bars 63-64, silence through bars 65-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-90, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127-132, 143-148 and 170-172, and 3 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    127
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Neo Folk 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- AG, U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-71 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part U -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part U and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-130 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Neo Folk 2?

50 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Neo Folk 2 hard to play on drums?

59 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 12:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Neo Folk 2?

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED