Nothing · A

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
NOTHING · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 45, 61 and 65.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-80.

CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
6 groovesACKFS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing?

89 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 Nothing hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Nothing?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 45, 61 and 65.

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