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Nomad · Gaerea

EXERCISE 33 OF 64
Run M2 · Part M (bars 66-78)
112 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nomad on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-48, ride through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-65, ride through bars 66-80 and snare through bars 81-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x---x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x---x-------------|
Nomad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-36 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-69 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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