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New Dawn · Nigmar

New Dawn · Nigmar
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDEFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Dawn on drums

153 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-40 and 49-51, and 8 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
New Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-29 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-120 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is New Dawn?

180 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 New Dawn hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED