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NP1 · Szőcs Nándor

NP1 · Szőcs Nándor
EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART Y
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO 2
14 groovesMWSAHO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NP1 on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, ride through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-44 and snare through bars 45-61, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-41 and 92-95 -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|----------------|
RD |----------------|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-x-xxxxx-x-xxxx|x-x-xxxxx-x-xxxx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
NP1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 28, 29, 33 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- O, AH -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-26 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-85 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NP1?

120 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 NP1 hard to play on drums?

64 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 NP1?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 28, 29, 33 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED