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Thanks For Nothing · Sum 41

EXERCISE 34 OF 50
Hold Groove S for 8 bars -- Part S (bars 89-96)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thanks For Nothing on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Thanks For Nothing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-25 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-34 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-57 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-101 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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