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No One There · Kevin Sherwood

EXERCISE 12 OF 72
Groove C
25 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART E
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART S11
PART BK
12 groovesBTBKS11E+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No One There on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, ride through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 5 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x---x-x-x-----x-x---|
No One There -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 24, 27, 28, 32, 34 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-29 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No One There?

100 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 One There hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 One There?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 24, 27, 28, 32, 34 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED