No Boundaries · Michael Angelo Batio

148 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42 and 44, and 9 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NO BOUNDARIES · BAR 110
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 38, 51, 63, 80, 81 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time, 16 are fills, 34 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART U
PART W
PART N
OUTRO
10 groovesBWNUL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Boundaries?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Boundaries hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 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 Boundaries?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 38, 51, 63, 80, 81 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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