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NOBLESS OBLIGE · Kamijo

NOBLESS OBLIGE · Kamijo
EXERCISE 3 OF 72
2-bar fill at bar 64
129 / 262 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART K
PART T
8 groovesFKTBI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NOBLESS OBLIGE on drums

262 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-77, toms through bars 78-81 and snare through bars 82-83, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 34-48 and 57-63, and 8 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|
NOBLESS OBLIGE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 33, 49 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-74 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-185 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-103 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NOBLESS OBLIGE?

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

Is NOBLESS OBLIGE hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 NOBLESS OBLIGE?

20 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 33, 49 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED