Never Get Caught · American Head Charge

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-19, 36-38 and 40-42, and 3 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
NEVER GET CAUGHT · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 77, 81 and 85.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time, 6 are fills, 19 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-19.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCS12FK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Get Caught?

125 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 Get Caught hard to play on drums?

50 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Never Get Caught?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 39, 43, 77, 81 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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