No Lie Untouched · Varials

98 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 40 and 90-92 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NO LIE UNTOUCHED · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 12, 21 and 22 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 47 keep time, 29 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

PART G
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
PART J
BREAK 2
PART AI
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLJALGQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Lie Untouched?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lie Untouched hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Lie Untouched?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 12, 21 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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