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It Never Ends · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 5 OF 106
4-bar fill at bar 6
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PART B
PART L
PART R
PART Z
CHORUS
PART A
PART L
PART BL
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
14 groovesAGLARZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 30
LAND · 30
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Never Ends on drums

218 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-13, snare through bars 14-30, hi-hat through bars 31-52, snare through bars 53-71 and kick and crashes through bars 72-75, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 28-30 and 130-132, and 2 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
It Never Ends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

30 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 62 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- L, AG -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part L and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-64 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It Never Ends?

210 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 It Never Ends hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 It Never Ends?

30 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED