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Nonagon · Car Bomb

EXERCISE 7 OF 77
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
38 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART C
PART S2
PART C
PART Q
PART Y
CHORUS
PART S9
PART BF
OUTRO
14 groovesALBFCS9Q+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nonagon on drums

162 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 3:44 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27, toms through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-51, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64, 67 and 70, and 9 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
BD |----x-x---x-|
Nonagon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AN, AL -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 2-24 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-44 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nonagon?

156 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Nonagon hard to play on drums?

53 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Nonagon?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED