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Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne) · Atlus Sound Team

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Fill at bar 32 and 72
37 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne) on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-72 and snare through bars 73-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 9 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx----x|x------xx--x--x-|
Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 48, 72 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-33 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-52 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne)?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne) hard to play on drums?

59 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Normal Battle -City- (Nocturne)?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 48, 72 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED