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Nonsense Nonsense「ナンセンスナンセンス」 · Frederic

EXERCISE 17 OF 39
Groove L -- Part L
41 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDGJLB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nonsense Nonsense「ナンセンスナンセンス」 on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-46, snare through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 15 and 30-32, and 4 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x---x-------x-----|
Nonsense Nonsense「ナンセンスナンセンス」 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 37, 50 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nonsense Nonsense「ナンセンスナンセンス」?

100 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 Nonsense Nonsense「ナンセンスナンセンス」 hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Nonsense Nonsense「ナンセンスナンセンス」?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 37, 50 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED