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No Boundaries · Michael Angelo Batio

No Boundaries · Michael Angelo Batio
EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove N -- Part N
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0 / 64 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART O, PART N
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Boundaries on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 2-28, snare through bars 29-34, toms through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46, toms through bars 47-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-54, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    110
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
No Boundaries -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-49 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part U -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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