No Secrets · The Angels

147 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 77-79 and 85-91, and 8 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NO SECRETS · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 31, 42, 46, 58, 65 and 17 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time, 23 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

PART A
PART B
PART E
PART H
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
5 groovesKBEHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Secrets?

140 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 Secrets hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Secrets?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 24, 31, 42, 46, 58, 65 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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