Never Gonna Give You Up · Rick Astley

101 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-100 -- 99% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 113 BPM
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP · BARS 2-3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 2 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-100.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Gonna Give You Up?

113 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 hard to play on drums?

57 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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