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No Way Out · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 22 OF 54
Groove O
85 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART B
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART N
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART V
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLNBEV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Way Out on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-38, toms through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 44-46, and 2 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
No Way Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 32, 36, 39 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 40-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-84 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Way Out?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Way Out hard to play on drums?

58 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Way Out?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 32, 36, 39 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED