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Nothing Left · WHD Drummer

Nothing Left · WHD Drummer
EXERCISE 20 OF 87
Fill at bar 28 and 58
82 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S10
PART AC
PART Z
PART AC
PART AL
PART AP
12 groovesCACAPHZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing Left on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, snare through bars 55-62 and silence through bars 63-68, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 31 and 33-37, and 7 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x--------------------------x--|
Nothing Left -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 38 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nothing Left?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

21 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 38 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED