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Never In My Life · Mountain

EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
100 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never In My Life on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, toms through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65 and toms through bars 66-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---x---x---|----x-x-x-------|
Never In My Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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