No Association · Silverchair

68 bars, 3:47, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 33 and 35 -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
NO ASSOCIATION · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 17, 21, 28, 36, 44 and 9 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 9 sections: 39 keep time, 15 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEROD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Association?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is No Association hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 No Association?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 17, 21, 28, 36, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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