Never As Good As The First Time · Sade

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 5 more places -- 92.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
NEVER AS GOOD AS THE FIRST TIME · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 2 sections: 97 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-105.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never As Good As The First Time?

108 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 As Good As The First Time hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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