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Sun Of Nihility · Job For A Cowboy

EXERCISE 17 OF 102
Groove R -- Part R
87 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART R
PART J
PART R
PART AA
PART AS
CHORUS
PART BV
PART CE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAYAAJASCE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sun Of Nihility on drums

214 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, toms through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-67, snare through bars 68-69 and toms through bars 70-71, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-90, 92-93 and 120-122, and 12 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 2, 16, 19, 20, 24, 31 and 75 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- AY, AA -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-47 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 21-36 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sun Of Nihility?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sun Of Nihility hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Sun Of Nihility?

29 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 2, 16, 19, 20, 24, 31 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED