Never Die · Creed

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7-9, and 14 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
NEVER DIE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 26, 32, 34, 38, 54 and 13 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 8 sections: 70 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHMIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Die?

90 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 Die 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Die?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 26, 32, 34, 38, 54 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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