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No Matter What · Badfinger

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Matter What on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED