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Nischal · Albatross

Nischal · Albatross
EXERCISE 4 OF 20
Groove H -- Outro
44 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nischal on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 6 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |------------------------------------------x-----|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------------x-----------------|
HF |x--------------x-x-x-------x--------------------|
Nischal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 24-37 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-54 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-73 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nischal?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Nischal hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED