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Nightingale Lane · Raye

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAHGDS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nightingale Lane on drums

104 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 62 BPM, 4:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
34/100

hi-hat through bars 1-31, ride through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-52, silence through bars 53-55, ride through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-85, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-15, and 19 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 55 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 18-30 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-104 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-61 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-97 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nightingale Lane?

62 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nightingale Lane hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Nightingale Lane?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 55 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED