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No Return · Even Grosser

EXERCISE 38 OF 49
Join Part Q to Outro (bars 77-79)
60 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesES4QFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Return on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-98 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED