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No One · Cold

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBNLS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No One on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

52 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
80
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-18 and 29-30, and 1 more place -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x--x|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-------x-----|
No One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 36 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase), L -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No One?

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 One hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in No One?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 36 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED