When You Say Nothing At All · Boyzone

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13 and 15-30, and 5 more places -- 80.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 41, 49 and 64.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 5 sections: 66 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-82.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When You Say Nothing At All?

88 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 When You Say Nothing At All 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in When You Say Nothing At All?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 41, 49 and 64.

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