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No below · Speedy Ortiz

No below · Speedy Ortiz
EXERCISE 35 OF 37
Run R1 · Outro (bars 59-63)
43 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No below on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-58, ride through bars 59-63 and silence through bars 64-78.

The beat

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.

    22
    1.....2.....3.....4.....5.....6.....
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------X-----------------|
BD |x---------x-x-----------------x-----|
No below -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-49 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-59 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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