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Neo Folk · Abylith

EXERCISE 8 OF 61
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
58 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
PART B
PART F
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLSEFY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neo Folk on drums

140 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 60 BPM, 8:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-61, ride through bars 62-95, silence through bars 96-103, ride through bars 104-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-109, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-65, 67-69 and 71-73, and 4 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............6...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----------------x---------------x-------------------------------x---------------x---------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------o-----------------------------------------------|
SD |------------------------------------------------x-----------------------------------------------|
T1 |------------------------x---------------x-------------------------------------------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------------------------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Neo Folk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-31 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-59 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Neo Folk?

60 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Neo Folk?

14 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED