Never Been Any Reason · Head East

174 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 27-33 and 35-40, and 17 more places -- 50.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NEVER BEEN ANY REASON · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 28 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 13 sections: 119 keep time, 34 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-86.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIOAAGAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Been Any Reason?

135 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 Been Any Reason hard to play on drums?

53 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Never Been Any Reason?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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