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No Has Never Had 3 Letters · kodan armada

EXERCISE 26 OF 71
Join Part K to Part L (bars 66-68)
77 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART L
PART S4
PART E
PART K
PART L
PART S
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
20 groovesAEESS4K+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 2
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Has Never Had 3 Letters on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-32, snare through bars 33-45, ride through bars 46-48, snare through bars 49-67 and ride through bars 68-79, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-67 -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
No Has Never Had 3 Letters -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 46, 90, 92, 93, 94, 96 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- K, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-17 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-56 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-74 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Has Never Had 3 Letters?

140 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 Has Never Had 3 Letters hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in No Has Never Had 3 Letters?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 46, 90, 92, 93, 94, 96 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED