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No Poetic Device · AFI

EXERCISE 11 OF 29
Groove G
68 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKNBHE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Poetic Device on drums

90 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-26, ride through bars 27-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 35-41 and 43-45, 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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
No Poetic Device -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 90.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Poetic Device?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is No Poetic Device hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Poetic Device?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED