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Not Promised tomorrow · Stuck Mojo

Not Promised tomorrow · Stuck Mojo
EXERCISE 17 OF 35
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 71-73)
103 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBGAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Promised tomorrow on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-80, ride through bars 81-84, hi-hat through bars 85-90 and ride through bars 91-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-23 and 26, and 15 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Not Promised tomorrow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 40, 52, 72, 81 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 73-103 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 103-118 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Promised tomorrow?

150 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 Promised tomorrow hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Promised tomorrow?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 40, 52, 72, 81 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED