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Not Anywhere · Alex G

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS2KS1LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Anywhere on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-26, toms through bars 27-30, ride through bars 31-36, snare through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27, 29-30 and 57, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---------x-|----x-----------|
SD |----x---x-------|----x---x-x-xxx-|
T2 |----------x-x---|----------------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-------------|
Not Anywhere -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 53 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-57 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Anywhere?

128 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 Not Anywhere hard to play on drums?

37 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Not Anywhere?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED