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New Jersey Vs. Valhalla · Orchid

EXERCISE 19 OF 43
Join Part K to Chorus 2 (bars 32-34)
49 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIRKEC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Jersey Vs. Valhalla on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 22 and 34, and 7 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-------x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---|
New Jersey Vs. Valhalla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 53, 64 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I, K, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-21 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Jersey Vs. Valhalla?

122 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 New Jersey Vs. Valhalla hard to play on drums?

54 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 New Jersey Vs. Valhalla?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 53, 64 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED