Something From Nothing · Foo Fighters

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 49-51, and 2 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 22, 28, 34, 38, 42 and 14 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 10 sections: 70 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-59.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJAAUS1R+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something From Nothing?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Something From Nothing hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

110 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Something From Nothing?

14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 22, 28, 34, 38, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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