No Dice · Line Of Scrimmage

69 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-69 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NO DICE · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 29.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-42.

PART E
CHORUS
PART P
PART L
PART V
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHS6VAEP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Dice?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dice hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in No Dice?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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