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Never Get Caught · American Head Charge

Never Get Caught · American Head Charge
EXERCISE 18 OF 26
Groove H -- Part H
93 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCS12FK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Get Caught on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, snare through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43, snare through bars 44-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-52 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 92-98 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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