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Never Enough · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 3 OF 78
Groove G -- Part G
68 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART W
PART G
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AB
CHORUS 5
11 groovesNPABGW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Enough on drums

199 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-62, ride through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-49, 55-57 and 91-99, and 7 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Never Enough -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 22, 24, 30, 32 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- N, P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-156 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Never Enough?

128 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 Enough hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Enough?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 22, 24, 30, 32 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED