← SONGS

Nomad · Sepultura

EXERCISE 10 OF 63
Run S21 · Break (bars 4-5)
27 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
BREAK
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART O
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AF
OUTRO
BREAK 3
13 groovesKEOS18AL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nomad on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-21, toms through bars 22-25 and snare through bars 26-30, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 27 and 29-30, and 4 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---------------x---x---x-------x-----------x---x-------|
Nomad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 10, 12, 14, 23 and 7 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-13 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Nomad?

76 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 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?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 10, 12, 14, 23 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED