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Handful Of Nothing · Pain Of Salvation

Handful Of Nothing · Pain Of Salvation
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove Q -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART L
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
10 groovesQLMAGAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Handful Of Nothing on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-50, ride through bars 51-65 and snare through bars 66-74, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58, 66-73 and 138, and 1 more place -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66                 67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e
CC |x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxx--xxx--xx--x--|xxxx--xxx--xx--x--|
Handful Of Nothing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 101 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 62 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Handful Of Nothing?

150 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 Handful Of Nothing hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Handful Of Nothing?

9 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 101 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED