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Nucleo · Experimentando Recuerdos

EXERCISE 18 OF 62
Groove N
95 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Y
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesRMYOAA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nucleo on drums

216 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-18, toms through bars 19-23 and ride through bars 24-27, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-62, 65-72 and 124-129, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |X-----------|
SD |------x---x-|
BD |xxx-x-xxx-x-|
Nucleo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-24 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-27 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-65 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-116 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nucleo?

210 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 Nucleo hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Nucleo?

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED