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Nobody Hears · Suicidal Tendencies

EXERCISE 21 OF 70
Groove M -- Part M
95 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART A
PART M
PART P
PART M
PART AI
OUTRO 2
8 groovesUAMAIP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nobody Hears on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 48 and 50, and 11 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Nobody Hears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- U, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-64 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nobody Hears?

117 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 Nobody Hears 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Nobody Hears?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED