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Never End · Siam Shade

Never End · Siam Shade
EXERCISE 7 OF 45
Groove G -- Part G
67 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART O
PART G
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never End on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-7, ride through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-51, ride through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Never End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- Q, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-41 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED