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Neon Grave · Seekday

Neon Grave · Seekday
EXERCISE 9 OF 51
4-bar fill at bar 6
35 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART Y
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKYAGS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neon Grave on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-31 and snare through bars 32-37, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 49-50, and 2 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-x--xx|
Neon Grave -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- K, Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-56 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Neon Grave?

98 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 Neon Grave hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Neon Grave?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED