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Never Call Again · Gavin Adcock

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBS7OS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Call Again on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 2-61, ride through bars 62-72, silence through bars 73-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-23 and 26, and 16 more places -- 36.7% 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
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Never Call Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 37, 61, 69, 80 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-46 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-82 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Never Call Again?

142 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 Call Again hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Call Again?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 25, 37, 61, 69, 80 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED