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North Star of Nija · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 9 OF 92
Groove C -- Part C
96 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART F
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AH
PART AV
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAAHBAFAV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 17
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play North Star of Nija on drums

187 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-48, hi-hat through bars 49-60 and snare through bars 61-65, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-12 and 17-20, and 16 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x---x---|
North Star of Nija -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 44, 48 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- A, AH -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Intro and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is North Star of Nija?

110 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 North Star of Nija hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 North Star of Nija?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 44, 48 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED