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Nobody · Mitski

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove D -- Part D
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0 / 34 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesQBIDF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nobody on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-59, kick and crashes through bars 60-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17 and 65-66 -- 21.4% 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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Nobody -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 43, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-65 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nobody?

118 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 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 43, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED