No Cigar · Millencolin

106 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 61-75 and 89-103 -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
NO CIGAR · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 59, 60, 84, 87 and 2 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 87-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 10 sections: 81 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-79.

PART C
PART F
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKCFGI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Cigar?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is No Cigar hard to play on drums?

54 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cigar?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 59, 60, 84, 87 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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