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Not · Big Thief

EXERCISE 27 OF 66
Groove P
166 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART K
PART AE
PART J
12 groovesBJKOC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not on drums

204 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-62, ride through bars 63-67, hi-hat through bars 68-72, ride through bars 73-76, hi-hat through bars 77-121 and ride through bars 122-127, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 30 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---------|
Not -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 64, 92, 118, 122, 128, 156 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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, J, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-50 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-107 -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 122-163 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-124 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not?

140 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 Not hard to play on drums?

49 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Not?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 64, 92, 118, 122, 128, 156 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED