Nothing On My Back · Sum 41

122 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-36, 61-67 and 115-121 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
NOTHING ON MY BACK · BARS 30-31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 15 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 23-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 16 sections: 68 keep time, 21 are fills, 10 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-59.

PART D
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART D
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AC
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesRVAADAC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing On My Back?

168 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 On My Back hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 On My Back?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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