No Reason · Sum 41

155 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
7:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 27 and 47-52, and 7 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
NO REASON · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 19 and 30 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 15 sections: 84 keep time, 36 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

PART M
PART U
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNUS14RM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Reason?

80 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Reason hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 7:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 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 Reason?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 19 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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