Everything In Exchange For Nothing · Ashes At Last

122 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-57, 69-83 and 106-113 -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
EVERYTHING IN EXCHANGE FOR NOTHING · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 18 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 15 sections: 79 keep time, 24 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-58.

PART A
PART B
PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOABABS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everything In Exchange For Nothing?

145 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 Everything In Exchange For Nothing hard to play on drums?

54 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Everything In Exchange For Nothing?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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