Here Is No Why · Smashing Pumpkins

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-18, 35-41 and 62-68 -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
HERE IS NO WHY · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 22 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 36 keep time, 28 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-41.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEITQAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here Is No Why?

81 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 Here Is No Why hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Here Is No Why?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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