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Nerv · Thornhill

EXERCISE 3 OF 57
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 57 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART AC
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
PART V
PART K
PART AC
PART B
OUTRO
9 groovesDKFBV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nerv on drums

124 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, snare through bars 34-44, toms through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-54 and toms through bars 55-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-44 and 47-49, and 3 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----x-----|
Nerv -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 29, 32, 33, 45, 46 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- K, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-108 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-64 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nerv?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nerv hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nerv?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 29, 32, 33, 45, 46 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED