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When everything means nothing · Fit For A King

EXERCISE 32 OF 64
Fill at bar 77 and 134 (a small one)
100 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART S2
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
13 groovesJBFVS2+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When everything means nothing on drums

153 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-57 and kick and crashes through bars 58-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 34-36, and 9 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x-----x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|
When everything means nothing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 37, 41, 45, 49 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-54 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-74 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-96 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When everything means nothing?

159 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 When everything means nothing 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 When everything means nothing?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 9, 37, 41, 45, 49 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED