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No Reason · Sum 41

EXERCISE 20 OF 63
Run S51 · Part S5 (bars 17-21)
90 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S5
PART S5
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Reason on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
7:42
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-14, silence through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-21 and ride through bars 22-29, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- N, M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-22 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-30 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part M and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-84 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AF -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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