Nowe · Clinging To The Anthill

35 bars, 3:24, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20 -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
NOWE · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 1 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

37 bars across 5 sections: 14 keep time, 7 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

CHORUS
PART I
BREAK
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
5 groovesAS5IS3LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nowe?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nowe hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 1 more.

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