No Fear · Jon Reddick

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 18-20 and 31-34, and 3 more places -- 50.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
NO FEAR · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 13 sections: 67 keep time, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-81.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesCBEFS12+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Fear?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fear hard to play on drums?

33 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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