No Exit · ghetto sap

242 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 5:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 60, 62-65 and 68, and 9 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 183 BPM
NO EXIT · BARS 62-63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 15, 31, 35 and 32 more.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 23 sections: 141 keep time, 38 are fills and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 208-218.

PART B
PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
PART AX
14 groovesWMJGB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Exit?

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

Is No Exit hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Exit?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 15, 31, 35 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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