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Say No Word · LANDMVRKS

EXERCISE 4 OF 54
Groove Z -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
26 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLCZUAH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say No Word on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37, snare through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-61, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35 and 46-52 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Say No Word -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- L, C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-29 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Say No Word?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Say No Word hard to play on drums?

69 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?

86 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Say No Word?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED