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Nomu · Good Kid

EXERCISE 19 OF 46
Join Part J to Part L (bars 53-55)
98 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCQFL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nomu on drums

123 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, snare through bars 31-46, toms through bars 47-62 and snare through bars 63-79, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 32 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Nomu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 62, 70, 86, 94, 102 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-49 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-56 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-71 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 73-95 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nomu?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nomu hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nomu?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 62, 70, 86, 94, 102 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED