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Nothing Compares To You · Sinead Oconnor

Nothing Compares To You · Sinead Oconnor
EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing Compares To You on drums

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

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-69.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|x--x------x-----|
Nothing Compares To You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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