← SONGS

Nothin' But a Good Time · Poison

EXERCISE 3 OF 58
3-bar fill at bar 17 and 1 more
46 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART N
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART U
PART F
PART O
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEFCUN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothin' But a Good Time on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-35, ride through bars 36-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, ride through bars 61-67, snare through bars 68-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-85, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 20, and 13 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Nothin' But a Good Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-28 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-82 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Nothin' But a Good Time?

130 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 Nothin' But a Good Time hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nothin' But a Good Time?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED