Nothing Matters · The Last Dinner Party

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-21, 35-41 and 51-53, and 2 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
NOTHING MATTERS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 42, 54, 58, 66, 67 and 2 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 49 keep time, 8 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

COUNT-IN
PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART H
VERSE 3
OUTRO
5 groovesCES1HBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing Matters?

100 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 Matters hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Matters?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 42, 54, 58, 66, 67 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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