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No Cigar · Millencolin

No Cigar · Millencolin
EXERCISE 6 OF 35
Groove A -- Part A
68 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Cigar on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, snare through bars 61-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-84, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x-----|
No Cigar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-77 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-85 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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