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NOT OK · 5 Seconds Of Summer

EXERCISE 23 OF 32
Join Break 4 to Chorus 4 (bars 83-85)
92 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 4, CHORUS 4
INTRO
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
14 groovesCBGS4E+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NOT OK on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 3-21, silence through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-50, silence through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-80 and silence through bars 81-82, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|
NOT OK -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-21 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-116 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-85 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-109 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED