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Nova Era · Nova Era

Nova Era · Nova Era
EXERCISE 20 OF 87
Groove K -- Part K
123 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AG
OUTRO
15 groovesHLAGFA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nova Era on drums

202 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
88/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, ride through bars 31-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-60, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 37 and 39-40, and 19 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Nova Era -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 38, 41 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-177 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 23-40 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nova Era?

170 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 Nova Era hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Nova Era?

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 38, 41 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED