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Nobody · Skindred

EXERCISE 10 OF 27
Groove E
76 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 3
7 groovesICGHB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nobody on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-28, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-36, 61-67 and 87-94 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
HH |--o-o-o---o-o-o-|--o-o-o---------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----xx-xx-|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
Nobody -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 70 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-33 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-77 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nobody?

98 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?

45 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?

96 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 70 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED