Thanks For Nothing · Sum 41

145 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 15 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
THANKS FOR NOTHING · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 52, 56 and 14 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 74 keep time, 20 are fills, 33 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJVES+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thanks For Nothing?

179 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 Thanks For Nothing hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Thanks For Nothing?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 52, 56 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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