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Nerdy · Poison The Well

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 51 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nerdy on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, snare through bars 42-49, hi-hat through bars 50-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-91.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-35 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nerdy?

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 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 2:21 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?

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