Never End · Siam Shade

148 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-45, 73-83 and 110-120 -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
NEVER END · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 7, 22, 26 and 15 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 52-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 95 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART O
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK 3
11 groovesQXKOR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never End?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Never End hard to play on drums?

60 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Never End?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 7, 22, 26 and 15 more.

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