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No Way Back · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Way Back on drums

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.

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
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-35, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x---x---x---x-|
No Way Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 82-152 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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