No below · Speedy Ortiz

78 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 3:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 26 and 28, and 3 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
NO BELOW · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 39, 40 and 5 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 8 sections: 25 keep time, 11 are fills and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS1DS8FC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No below?

115 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 No below hard to play on drums?

62 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?

78 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 No below?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 39, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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