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Everything In Exchange For Nothing · Ashes At Last

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove O -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everything In Exchange For Nothing on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-92, kick and crashes through bars 93-102 and silence through bars 103-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x--x--x-x|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Everything In Exchange For Nothing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- O, A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-43 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-59 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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