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No Mercy · Yngwie Malmsteen

EXERCISE 10 OF 44
Fill at bar 14
111 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Mercy on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-67, kick and crashes through bars 68-69, silence through bars 70-90, toms through bars 91-92 and ride through bars 93-100, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-43 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 43-93 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 91-118 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 118-148 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 144-164 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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