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No More Mr. Nice Guy · Megadeth

EXERCISE 20 OF 33
Groove J
84 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesFELIC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No More Mr. Nice Guy on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, ride through bars 31-38, toms through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-38, 51-58 and 85-100 -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |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

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 65, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-34 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No More Mr. Nice Guy?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 65, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED