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No Such Thing · John Mayer

EXERCISE 28 OF 35
Groove U -- Outro
100 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEUS1OFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Such Thing on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-80, ride through bars 81-89, toms through bars 90-91, hi-hat through bars 92-99 and snare through bars 100-101, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-22, 29 and 39, and 11 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
No Such Thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 30, 35, 36, 60, 66 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-86 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 84-93 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No Such Thing?

132 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 Such Thing hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Such Thing?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 30, 35, 36, 60, 66 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED