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No Fear · Iceage

No Fear · Iceage
EXERCISE 16 OF 39
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 43-45)
99 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART D
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Fear on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-58 and snare through bars 59-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
No Fear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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