Never Been To Spain · Three Dog Night

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 27 and 32-36, and 6 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
NEVER BEEN TO SPAIN · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 46, 47, 48 and 3 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 46-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 6 sections: 56 keep time, 9 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-45.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1COFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Been To Spain?

88 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 To Spain hard to play on drums?

49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 To Spain?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 46, 47, 48 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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