No One Stays At The Top Forever · Title Fight

98 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 2:21 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 20-23 and 25-28, and 5 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NO ONE STAYS AT THE TOP FOREVER · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 33, 34, 41, 42, 54 and 8 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 4 sections: 20 keep time, 14 are fills, 49 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-73.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJS2DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No One Stays At The Top Forever?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Stays At The Top Forever hard to play on drums?

53 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 One Stays At The Top Forever?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 13, 33, 34, 41, 42, 54 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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