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Never Been To Spain · Three Dog Night

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Intro
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COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1COFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Been To Spain on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-13 and hi-hat through bars 14-83.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Intro and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-74 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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