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Nervous Breakdown · Black Flag

EXERCISE 7 OF 20
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 8-10)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nervous Breakdown on drums

92 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-37 and snare through bars 38-47, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 20-21 and 27-39, and 10 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---g---g---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Nervous Breakdown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-28 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nervous Breakdown?

185 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 Nervous Breakdown hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nervous Breakdown?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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