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Nocte Aeterna · Nocturnal Depression

EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFHDS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nocte Aeterna on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
26/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44 and snare through bars 45-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35 and 37-43 -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 52 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, D, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-61 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Nocte Aeterna?

80 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 Nocte Aeterna hard to play on drums?

26 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Nocte Aeterna?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 52 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED