No Surrender · Judas Priest

92 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 22-29 and 39-45, and 5 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NO SURRENDER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 13, 21, 30, 38, 46 and 8 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 5 sections: 29 keep time, 14 are fills, 42 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-92.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Surrender?

130 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 Surrender hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Surrender?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 13, 21, 30, 38, 46 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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