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But Not Tonight · Depeche Mode

EXERCISE 11 OF 14
Run A2 · Outro (bars 102-110)
137 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play But Not Tonight on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-50, snare through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-86, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 27-33 and 35-42, and 14 more places -- 74.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
But Not Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is But Not Tonight?

120 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 But Not Tonight 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED