Nothing More · Crowbar

88 bars, 5:11, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 49-55 and 65-88 -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
NOTHING MORE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 23, 24, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 68 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-88.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing More?

68 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 More hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 More?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 23, 24, 32 and 9 more.

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