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nerdowell the 81st · hippocratic oath

nerdowell the 81st · hippocratic oath
EXERCISE 3 OF 54
Groove K -- Part K
66 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEKCS9O+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play nerdowell the 81st on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, ride through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-48, ride through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-99, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29-32, and 7 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|x-----------x---|
nerdowell the 81st -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 20, 28, 33, 41 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is nerdowell the 81st?

135 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 nerdowell the 81st hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 nerdowell the 81st?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 20, 28, 33, 41 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED