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No More Mr. Nice Guy · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 20 OF 51
Run I1 · Part I (bars 23-27)
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0 / 51 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No More Mr. Nice Guy on drums

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

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42 and ride through bars 43-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
No More Mr. Nice Guy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-27 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-79 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-82 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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