ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Exit on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 183 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 242
LENGTH: 5:12
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, ride through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-59 and ride through bars 60-65, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    62                               63
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------------------x---|--------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|--------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x---|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-x---------------|x-----------x-x-x---------------|

No Exit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- W, M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part B and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part B and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part M and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 16 more sittings after that.

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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