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No Mans Land · Bob Seger

EXERCISE 4 OF 22
Run C1 · Outro (bars 6-9)
81 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Mans Land on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-29, 31-41 and 44-47, and 12 more places -- 74.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
No Mans Land -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 42, 43, 51, 60, 77, 81 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No Mans Land?

115 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 Mans Land hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Mans Land?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 42, 43, 51, 60, 77, 81 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED