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Not Listening · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 38 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesGQVKU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Listening on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34 and snare through bars 35-37, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 23-25 and 29-31 -- 17.7% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |xx------xx------|
Not Listening -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 16 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-23 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Listening?

86 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 Listening hard to play on drums?

56 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Not Listening?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 16 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED