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Northern Downpour · Panic! At The Disco

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove C -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Northern Downpour on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 26-28 and 31-37, and 5 more places -- 75.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Northern Downpour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 30, 46 and 50.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Northern Downpour?

85 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 Northern Downpour hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Northern Downpour?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 30, 46 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED