Never Going Back · A Perfect Nothing

85 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 59 and 69-70, and 2 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
NEVER GOING BACK · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 42 and 60.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time, 3 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-73.

CHORUS
PART F
PART A
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFAJH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Going Back?

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 Going Back hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Going Back?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 42 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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