Nothing · Alternative Competition 4

85 bars, 4:36, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 43-50 and 69-76 -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
NOTHING · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 42 and 68.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 62 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIBKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Nothing hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 42 and 68.

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