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White Nile · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 5 OF 60
Groove F -- Part F
76 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART A
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBAJAFAQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Nile on drums

191 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 2-35, toms through bars 36-38, snare through bars 39-44, hi-hat through bars 45-46, snare through bars 47-75 and toms through bars 76-78, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-13 and 15-16, and 32 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    143
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
White Nile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 14, 19, 20, 30, 36 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, AJ -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 10-31 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 92-120 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part AJ -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is White Nile?

218 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 White Nile hard to play on drums?

47 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 White Nile?

15 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 10, 14, 19, 20, 30, 36 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED