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No Dice · Line Of Scrimmage

No Dice · Line Of Scrimmage
EXERCISE 13 OF 34
Groove M
35 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART P
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Dice on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-33, toms through bars 34-42, silence through bars 43-52 and snare through bars 53-69.

The beat

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.

    61
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
No Dice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- AE, V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-40 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-55 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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