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Nothing is Ever Black and White · Rose Avenue

EXERCISE 1 OF 87
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART AF
PART L
PART AJ
OUTRO
14 groovesFLOAJAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing is Ever Black and White on drums

277 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-43, snare through bars 44-60, hi-hat through bars 61-99 and snare through bars 100-101, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14 and 16-20, and 15 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Nothing is Ever Black and White -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 29, 36 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-153 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nothing is Ever Black and White?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nothing is Ever Black and White hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 is Ever Black and White?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 29, 36 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED