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What If I Was Nothing drums · All That Remains

EXERCISE 20 OF 37
Run K1 · Part K (bars 61-64)
112 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFES1IN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What If I Was Nothing drums on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-46 and silence through bars 47-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 13 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
What If I Was Nothing drums -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 136.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-36 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-102 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 95-120 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What If I Was Nothing drums?

145 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 What If I Was Nothing drums hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 What If I Was Nothing drums?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED