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Primal · Nik Nocturnal
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Intro (a two-bar phrase)
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INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES7IS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Primal on drums

139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, snare through bars 59-82 and silence through bars 83-98, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 27-33 and 35-41, and 5 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
Primal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Primal?

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 Primal hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Primal?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 34, 42, 50 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED