No Quarter · Tool

290 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
11:31
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 51 and 79, and 20 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
NO QUARTER · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 48, 52, 78 and 49 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 26 sections: 112 keep time, 55 are fills, 16 are stops and 83 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-151.

BREAK 2
PART S8
PART S12
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART AW
CHORUS 4
17 groovesPCS12S8O+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Quarter?

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 Quarter hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 11:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Quarter?

25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 48, 52, 78 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED
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