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Nothing Compares To You · Santa Cruz

EXERCISE 5 OF 64
Groove I -- Part I
34 / 117 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART I
PART AA
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIAAKDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing Compares To You on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-48, ride through bars 49-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-56, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-7 and 13-14, and 9 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x--xx-xx--xx-|
Nothing Compares To You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 3, 15, 19, 22, 23 and 29 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-33 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-61 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 5 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nothing Compares To You?

82 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 Compares To You hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Nothing Compares To You?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 3, 15, 19, 22, 23 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED