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No Other Heartt · Mac DeMarco

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove A -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Other Heartt on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-48, ride through bars 49-54, hi-hat through bars 55-56 and snare through bars 57-59, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 10-15, and 4 more places -- 57.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----xx--------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
No Other Heartt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 54 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No Other Heartt?

94 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 Other Heartt hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in No Other Heartt?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 54 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED