Nothing To Say · Antiskeptic

127 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 15-16 and 23-24, and 6 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
NOTHING TO SAY · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 42 and 13 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 19 are fills, 10 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART H
PART P
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCHDKP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nothing To Say?

165 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 To Say hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 To Say?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 42 and 13 more.

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