No Matter What · Badfinger

84 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-20 and 37-44, and 3 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
NO MATTER WHAT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 50, 68 and 76.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 6 sections: 71 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-67.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Matter What?

116 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 Matter What hard to play on drums?

51 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in No Matter What?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 50, 68 and 76.

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