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No Transitory · Alexisonfire

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove G -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesGHKS9S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Transitory on drums

161 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and snare through bars 21-24, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-59, 101-104 and 119-141, and 1 more place -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---------|
No Transitory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- G -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-93 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 89-142 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is No Transitory?

185 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 Transitory 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in No Transitory?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 12 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED