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No One Stays At The Top Forever · Title Fight

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove J -- Outro 2
32 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJS2DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No One Stays At The Top Forever on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, toms through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-46 and snare through bars 47-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |X---g---g---|
BD |x-----------|
No One Stays At The Top Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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