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Never Enough · The Cure

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove D -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Enough on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-106 and toms through bars 107-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 12-18 and 21-26, and 22 more places -- 72.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 19, 20, 46 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Never Enough?

101 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 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 Enough?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 11, 19, 20, 46 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED