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Niki FM · Hawthorne Heights

EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-17)
70 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART J
PART I
CHORUS
PART J
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AA
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOAJIAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Niki FM on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
31/100

ride through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-35, ride through bars 36-44, snare through bars 45-47, ride through bars 48-67 and snare through bars 68-83, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 20 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x---|
HF |x---x---x---|
Niki FM -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 34, 35, 39, 43, 51, 82 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- H, A, AA -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-118 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part J and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-72 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-93 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 103-118 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Niki FM?

138 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 Niki FM hard to play on drums?

31 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Niki FM?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 34, 35, 39, 43, 51, 82 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED