← SONGS

Nothing On My Back · Sum 41

EXERCISE 28 OF 61
Groove T
79 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nothing On My Back on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-29, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30               31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-x-------|----------------|
RD |----x-------x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|x-x-----x-x-----|
Nothing On My Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, AA -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-21 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-47 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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