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EXERCISE 14 OF 35
Groove H -- Part H
39 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H
PART C
PART E
PART H
PART S5
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFS9NEC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing But A Beatdown on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-47 and snare through bars 48-62, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 31-33, and 1 more place -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---------|
Nothing But A Beatdown -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 17, 21, 30, 34, 62 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-59 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-66 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-96 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nothing But A Beatdown?

131 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 But A Beatdown hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nothing But A Beatdown?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 17, 21, 30, 34, 62 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED