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Neon Pill · Cage The Elephant

EXERCISE 13 OF 15
Play the whole song with the record
88 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 96 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neon Pill on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-15, 19-21 and 23-25, and 9 more places -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Neon Pill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-81 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Neon Pill?

121 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 Pill hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Neon Pill?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED