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Never Fade Away · Samurai (Cyberpunk 2077)

Never Fade Away · Samurai (Cyberpunk 2077)
EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove G -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Fade Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Never Fade Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-16 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-67 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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