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No · Unkn

No · Unkn
EXERCISE 26 OF 65
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 24-26)
48 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART R
PART V
PART Y
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesJBYAHF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-33, snare through bars 34-39 and toms through bars 40-41, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 62-64 and 66-72 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
No -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 25 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-21 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

81 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

16 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 25 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED