No Time To Explain · Good Kid

117 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-49 and 84-90, and 1 more place -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
NO TIME TO EXPLAIN · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 41, 50, 51 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 50-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 6 sections: 74 keep time, 14 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-117.

PART C
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMJGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Time To Explain?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is No Time To Explain hard to play on drums?

54 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Time To Explain?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 41, 50, 51 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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