Nothing Compares To You · Sinead Oconnor

69 bars, 4:36, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 6 more places -- 87.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 60 BPM
NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 28 and 40.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-69.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing Compares To You?

60 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 Compares To You hard to play on drums?

43 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nothing Compares To You?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 28 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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