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Never Die · Creed

EXERCISE 5 OF 41
Groove M -- Part M
47 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Die on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-62, ride through bars 63-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-103.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Never Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-83 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-38 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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