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Northern Comfort · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART Y
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBLGVP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Northern Comfort on drums

173 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-65, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 15 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Northern Comfort -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-114 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 104-126 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part V -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Northern Comfort?

185 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 Northern Comfort hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 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 Northern Comfort?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED