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Nosferatu Does A Hefty Dance · Pinkly Smooth

EXERCISE 37 OF 73
Join Part X to Part H (bars 68-70)
68 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X, PART H
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART M
PART R
PART X
PART H
PART AR
OUTRO 2
15 groovesS17HARMBB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nosferatu Does A Hefty Dance on drums

185 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34, ride through bars 35-49, hi-hat through bars 50-55 and toms through bars 56-57, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-23 and 58, and 1 more place -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....
RD |------x-----x-----------x-----x-----|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------|
Nosferatu Does A Hefty Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 37, 41, 44 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- D, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-65 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nosferatu Does A Hefty Dance?

192 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nosferatu Does A Hefty Dance hard to play on drums?

52 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 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 Nosferatu Does A Hefty Dance?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 37, 41, 44 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED