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Notion · The Rare Occasions

Notion · The Rare Occasions
EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove G -- Part G
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0 / 63 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART A
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesYACGQAH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Notion on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-22, snare through bars 23-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48, ride through bars 49-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-29 and 32-36 -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |ggggxgggggggxggg|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Notion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 30, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- G, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-53 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Notion?

105 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 Notion hard to play on drums?

62 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 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 Notion?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 30, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED