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Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider · Camel

EXERCISE 17 OF 101
Join Part C to Part I (bars 29-31)
126 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART I
PART C
PART I
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesYBQCEAX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 30
LAND · 30
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider on drums

233 bars, 20:13, at 41 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
41 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
20:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-81, snare through bars 82-83, ride through bars 84-109 and snare through bars 110-111, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-72, 76-78 and 80, and 21 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    69
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |---g--------------x--------g-----g--|
BD |x--------x--x-----------------x-----|
Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

30 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- Y, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BQ -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider?

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

Is Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 20:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Nimrodel / The Procession / The White Rider?

30 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 28, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED