Never Let This Go · Paramore

126 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19-23 and 25-26, and 3 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
NEVER LET THIS GO · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 40, 60 and 17 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 23 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-59.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIEAKR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Let This Go?

145 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 Let This Go 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Never Let This Go?

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 40, 60 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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