No Return · Even Grosser

105 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 31-37 and 79-85 -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
NO RETURN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 14, 22, 30, 38 and 24 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 4 sections: 28 keep time, 30 are fills, 41 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesES4QFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Return?

160 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 Return hard to play on drums?

51 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Return?

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 14, 22, 30, 38 and 24 more.

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