Never In My Life · Mountain

149 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 22-25 and 30-33, and 10 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
NEVER IN MY LIFE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 10 sections: 107 keep time, 5 are fills and 24 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-149.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEIDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never In My Life?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Never In My Life hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In My Life?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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