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Nightfall · Syncatto

Nightfall · Syncatto
EXERCISE 11 OF 44
10-bar fill at bar 22
28 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART P
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEPFS1A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nightfall on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 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
113
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-90, silence through bars 91-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 42 and 82, and 4 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Nightfall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S4 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nightfall?

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 Nightfall hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nightfall?

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED