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Neon Valley ai · Periphery

EXERCISE 18 OF 72
2-bar fill at bar 51
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0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S6
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART S6
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART X
PART AF
BREAK
PART Q
PART AS
OUTRO
12 groovesBQGXAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neon Valley ai on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, toms through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-50, hi-hat through bars 51-68 and snare through bars 69-75, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 11 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|
Neon Valley ai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 34, 48, 51, 52, 64, 68 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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, Q -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-26 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-49 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S6 and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 57-69 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part X -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Neon Valley ai?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Valley ai hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

140 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Valley ai?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 34, 48, 51, 52, 64, 68 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED