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No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist · Evergreen Terrace

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove G -- Part G
0 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART A
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDGPLK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist on drums

91 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-63, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 28-30 and 32-34 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|
No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-23 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-71 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist hard to play on drums?

61 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 No Donnie, These Men Are Nihilist?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED