Nothing Left Inside · Black Flag

207 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-23 and 27, and 26 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NOTHING LEFT INSIDE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 54 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 18 sections: 65 keep time, 20 are fills, 106 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-74.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
7 groovesGJIKH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing Left Inside?

140 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 Left Inside hard to play on drums?

38 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 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 Left Inside?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 54 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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