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Null Signal Demo · Niko

EXERCISE 21 OF 62
6-bar fill at bar 38
65 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3
PART A
CHORUS
PART S3
PART Q
PART U
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCEABAU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Null Signal Demo on drums

109 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, silence through bars 35-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-43 and ride through bars 44-51, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 22-23 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Null Signal Demo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-54 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part U and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Null Signal Demo?

180 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 Null Signal Demo hard to play on drums?

62 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Null Signal Demo?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED