No Fear · Iceage

144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 25-27 and 29-30, and 13 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
NO FEAR · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 120, 134 and 144.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 144
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 111 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-38.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART E
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFELBS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Fear?

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

Is No Fear hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Fear?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 120, 134 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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