It Takes No Guts · Superjoint Ritual

106 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
IT TAKES NO GUTS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22 and 21 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 13 sections: 50 keep time, 27 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-91.

PART C
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHOYC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Takes No Guts?

190 BPM, in 4/4, 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 It Takes No Guts hard to play on drums?

64 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?

106 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 It Takes No Guts?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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