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Never Again · Nickelback

EXERCISE 21 OF 43
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 31-33)
128 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJGBQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Again on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45, snare through bars 46-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-55, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Never Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-57 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-29 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-75 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-118 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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