Nomad · Gaerea

154 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 10 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NOMAD · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 25 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 16 sections: 109 keep time, 31 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
10 groovesJBMOA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nomad?

120 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 Nomad hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Nomad?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 28, 32 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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