No Control · One Direction

116 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-24 and 41-60 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
NO CONTROL · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 116.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 116
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 10 sections: 86 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-23.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECS7FJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Control?

143 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 Control hard to play on drums?

52 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in No Control?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 116.

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