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Synergy · Neaera

Synergy · Neaera
EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART Q
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCQIG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Synergy on drums

210 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-34, silence through bars 35-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-38, silence through bars 39-41, snare through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 74-89 and 178-193 -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Synergy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 73, 97, 113, 137, 145 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-74 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-98 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Synergy?

172 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 Synergy hard to play on drums?

61 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Synergy?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 73, 97, 113, 137, 145 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED