Nomad · Clairo

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 23 and 25-31, and 6 more places -- 75.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 83 BPM
NOMAD · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 56 keep time, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-42.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S3S5S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nomad?

83 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 Nomad hard to play on drums?

35 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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