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I Have Nothing · Whitney Houston

EXERCISE 11 OF 16
Join Part F to Chorus 6 (bars 192-194)
187 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 6
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART F
CHORUS 6
10 groovesAKFS16S5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Have Nothing on drums

239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 4:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
34/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-51, hi-hat through bars 52-94, silence through bars 95-108, hi-hat through bars 109-161 and silence through bars 162-163, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4 and 6, and 45 more places -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------|
I Have Nothing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 217.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 3 and the Break 5 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 155-189 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is I Have Nothing?

156 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Have Nothing hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 I Have Nothing?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 217.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED