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No Surrender · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 21 OF 28
Fill at bar 66 (a small one)
80 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Surrender on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and snare through bars 39-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
No Surrender -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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