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The Nocturnal One · Drudkh

EXERCISE 19 OF 63
Groove G -- Part G
130 / 204 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAEWGT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Nocturnal One on drums

204 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48 and snare through bars 49-54, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 10 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 56, 64 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-162 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-132 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Nocturnal One?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Nocturnal One hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Nocturnal One?

16 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 48, 56, 64 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED