No Mercy · Yngwie Malmsteen

171 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 33-39 and 61-67, and 9 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NO MERCY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 14, 41, 42, 46, 50 and 16 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 13 sections: 107 keep time, 22 are fills, 7 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-31.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFS7MA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Mercy?

130 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 Mercy hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mercy?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 14, 41, 42, 46, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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