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november · letterstoyou
EXERCISE 9 OF 97
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
70 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART X
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART K
PART X
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHXGS1S14+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play november on drums

205 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-71, toms through bars 72-79 and snare through bars 80-83, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-43, 45-47 and 110, and 9 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
november -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 24, 44, 48, 56, 57, 64 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is november?

150 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 november 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 november?

24 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 24, 44, 48, 56, 57, 64 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED