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Noots · Sum 41

EXERCISE 4 OF 69
Groove D -- Part D
31 / 155 BARS COVERED
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PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
PART X
PART Z
PART AF
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGCXDAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Noots on drums

155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, ride through bars 33-51, hi-hat through bars 52-72 and ride through bars 73-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 33-35, and 12 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-89 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Noots?

180 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 Noots hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Noots?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED