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NightSky · Kamelot

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBGS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NightSky on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, snare through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-31, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 12 and 34-40, and 6 more places -- 41.2% 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+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
NightSky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 32, 33, 41, 49, 51 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-42 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-55 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NightSky?

128 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 NightSky hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 NightSky?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 32, 33, 41, 49, 51 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED