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The Nobodies · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Nobodies on drums

67 bars, 3:34, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-39, snare through bars 40-48, hi-hat through bars 49-59, snare through bars 60-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 23-24 and 26, and 3 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Nobodies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 31, 59, 61 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A, C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-35 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Nobodies?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Nobodies hard to play on drums?

48 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Nobodies?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 31, 59, 61 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED