Never Again · Nickelback

145 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7-8 and 10-11, and 20 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
NEVER AGAIN · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 29, 41 and 19 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 15 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 12 sections: 60 keep time, 26 are fills and 47 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART B
PART G
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJGBQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Again?

136 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 Never Again hard to play on drums?

52 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?

145 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Never Again?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 29, 41 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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