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Nuclear Fusion · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-9)
61 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFBHS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nuclear Fusion on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, silence through bars 10-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 22-32 and 42-56 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Nuclear Fusion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 64, 78 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-36 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 35-82 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-69 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nuclear Fusion?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Nuclear Fusion hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nuclear Fusion?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 64, 78 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED