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No Time To Explain · Good Kid

EXERCISE 24 OF 33
Groove S
92 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMJGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Time To Explain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, toms through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-49 and toms through bars 50-51, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
No Time To Explain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- M, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-110 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
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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