Baby One More Notch · Blind Witness

174 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-42 and 51-53, and 2 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BABY ONE MORE NOTCH · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 14, 15, 58, 62, 63 and 15 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 18 sections: 112 keep time, 22 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-44.

PART B
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART BA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesRACAFGBA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby One More Notch?

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 Baby One More Notch hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 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 Baby One More Notch?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 14, 15, 58, 62, 63 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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