Nobody's Wife · Anouk

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 43-45 and 55-61, and 2 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
NOBODY'S WIFE · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 24, 41, 42, 54, 62 and 2 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 10 sections: 38 keep time, 8 are fills, 12 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFJS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nobody's Wife?

100 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's Wife hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Nobody's Wife?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 24, 41, 42, 54, 62 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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