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Nordland · Bathory

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
Groove F -- Part F
184 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART F
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesCFIED+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nordland on drums

233 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-16, and 24 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    22
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x---|
Nordland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 52, 110, 122, 180 and 192.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-15 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-90 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-24 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nordland?

130 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 Nordland hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Nordland?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 52, 110, 122, 180 and 192.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED