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Non-Stop · Hamilton

Non-Stop · Hamilton
EXERCISE 14 OF 33
Groove L
132 / 293 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5, CHORUS 6
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
BREAK 4
PART E
BREAK 5
CHORUS 6
BREAK 6
13 groovesADES19S13+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Non-Stop on drums

293 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 6:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-26 and kick and crashes through bars 27-33, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 15 and 34-40, and 15 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Non-Stop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 95-138 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 153-210 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 210-259 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 258-270 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 269-290 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Non-Stop?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Non-Stop hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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.

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