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Very nice song · Breath of Light

Very nice song · Breath of Light
EXERCISE 6 OF 78
Groove D -- Part D
74 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART D
PART P
PART R
PART V
PART AB
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHPABDA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Very nice song on drums

226 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41 and toms through bars 42-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 49-51, and 15 more places -- 11.5% 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.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-------x---|
Very nice song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 41, 56, 57, 89 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- H, P -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-65 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Very nice song?

180 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 Very nice song hard to play on drums?

78 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?

226 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 41, 56, 57, 89 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED