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Very nice song 5 · Breath of Light

Very nice song 5 · Breath of Light
EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART J
OUTRO
9 groovesEJABXK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Very nice song 5 on drums

284 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-58 and snare through bars 59-60, and 36 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-31, and 17 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17                                               18
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x--x--------------------x-----|x-----x-----------x--x--------------x--x--x--x--|
Very nice song 5 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 58, 66, 74 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Very nice song 5?

130 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 Very nice song 5 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Very nice song 5?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 58, 66, 74 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED