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UntitledHeavy · NuTheory

UntitledHeavy · NuTheory
EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove V -- Outro
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0 / 67 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART G
PART T
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesXTGOZ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play UntitledHeavy on drums

224 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 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
224
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-16 and snare through bars 17-32, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 20 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |xxx-x-xxx-x-----|
UntitledHeavy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 13, 14, 52, 60 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- V, X -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-50 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part T -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-132 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is UntitledHeavy?

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 UntitledHeavy hard to play on drums?

43 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 UntitledHeavy?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 13, 14, 52, 60 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED