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Never Gonna Give You Up Cover · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 21 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEFHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Gonna Give You Up Cover on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Never Gonna Give You Up Cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 44, 80 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-22 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-93 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Never Gonna Give You Up Cover?

126 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 Gonna Give You Up Cover hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Never Gonna Give You Up Cover?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 24, 44, 80 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED