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No Son Of Mine · Genesis

EXERCISE 42 OF 47
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 146-149)
158 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART Q
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHABQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Son Of Mine on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 6:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-56, ride through bars 57-80, hi-hat through bars 81-116 and ride through bars 117-165.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 54-55 and 81-83, and 5 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------------|
No Son Of Mine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-80 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-141 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 123-164 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 146-157 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Son Of Mine?

104 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 Son Of Mine hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Son Of Mine?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED