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Window Facing Nowhere · lantern ash

EXERCISE 8 OF 28
Groove H
65 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
6 groovesBMKAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Window Facing Nowhere on drums

100 bars, 5:28, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-78, snare through bars 79-83, kick and crashes through bars 84-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-31, 34-36 and 38-39, and 9 more places -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Window Facing Nowhere -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 66, 70, 85, 86, 90 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, C (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-100 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Window Facing Nowhere?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Window Facing Nowhere hard to play on drums?

45 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Window Facing Nowhere?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 66, 70, 85, 86, 90 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED