No Way Back · Foo Fighters

152 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-31, and 19 more places -- 69.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 187 BPM
NO WAY BACK · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 54, 102, 138 and 152.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 152
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 7 sections: 131 keep time, 4 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-53.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Way Back?

187 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 Way Back 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Way Back?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 54, 102, 138 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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