NOT OK · 5 Seconds Of Summer

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 29-40 and 56-58, and 3 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NOT OK · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 83, 84, 92 and 108.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 20 sections: 84 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-40.

INTRO
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
14 groovesCBGS4E+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is NOT OK?

140 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 OK hard to play on drums?

55 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in NOT OK?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 83, 84, 92 and 108.

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