Never Fade Away · Samurai (Cyberpunk 2077)

111 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 33-39 and 59-66 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
NEVER FADE AWAY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 50, 73, 74, 78, 81 and 6 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 17 sections: 64 keep time, 12 are fills, 18 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-40.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART N
PART L
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGELNQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Fade Away?

144 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 Fade Away hard to play on drums?

57 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 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 Fade Away?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 50, 73, 74, 78, 81 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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