No More Mr. Nice Guy · Alice Cooper

97 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 9 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
NO MORE MR. NICE GUY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 17 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 49 keep time, 23 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-53.

PART A
PART G
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDILTG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No More Mr. Nice Guy?

132 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 More Mr. Nice Guy hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 More Mr. Nice Guy?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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