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No More Tears · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 21 OF 43
Groove N
129 / 175 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCFS6LAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No More Tears on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
7:01
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-67, ride through bars 68-86, silence through bars 87-103 and toms through bars 104-112, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-26, 28-30 and 32-34, and 12 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 49, 67, 71, 77, 111, 112 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-120 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 75-122 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 121-155 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No More Tears?

100 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 Tears hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 7:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 More Tears?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 49, 67, 71, 77, 111, 112 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED