I Never Came · Queens Of The Stone Age

137 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-44, 46 and 48, and 18 more places -- 77.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
I NEVER CAME · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 124 and 132.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 4 sections: 128 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-57.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Never Came?

118 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 I Never Came hard to play on drums?

28 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in I Never Came?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 124 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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