Nerdy (Drop B) · Poison The Well

91 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
NERDY (DROP B) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 8 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART M
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBVPYK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nerdy (Drop B)?

150 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 Nerdy (Drop B) hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Nerdy (Drop B)?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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