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Never Going Back · A Perfect Nothing

Never Going Back · A Perfect Nothing
EXERCISE 6 OF 29
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
34 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Going Back on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-85.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |xxxx-xx-xx-x-xxx|
SD |----x--x--x-x---|
BD |x---------------|
Never Going Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 19-25 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-43 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-62 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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