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EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Groove C
25 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART J
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJS8OS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NWO on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25, snare through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-37, snare through bars 38-41 and silence through bars 42-45, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 7 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-50 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NWO?

94 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 NWO hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 NWO?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED