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Billy No Mates · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 20 OF 51
9-bar fill at bar 20
37 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHRAAIAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Billy No Mates on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-73, 75-77 and 79-81 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Billy No Mates -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 18 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- AI, R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Billy No Mates?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Billy No Mates hard to play on drums?

50 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?

82 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Billy No Mates?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 12, 16, 18 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED