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Recreant · Will Ramos & Nik Nocturnal

Recreant · Will Ramos & Nik Nocturnal
EXERCISE 29 OF 89
Groove N -- Part N
63 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART R, PART N
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART R
PART Y
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART AS
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFRAACC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Recreant on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-69, snare through bars 70-102 and toms through bars 103-115, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 23-25, and 3 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Recreant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- F, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-27 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Recreant?

125 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 Recreant hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Recreant?

22 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 22, 26, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED