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No Life · PLUNGERFACE

No Life · PLUNGERFACE
EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEDBADG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Life on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-11, snare through bars 12-70, ride through bars 71-74, snare through bars 75-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-105, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 30-35 and 37-42, and 23 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
No Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 28, 29, 49, 55, 59, 67 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 135-149 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Life?

120 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 Life hard to play on drums?

58 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Life?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 28, 29, 49, 55, 59, 67 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED