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Never Let This Go · Paramore

EXERCISE 20 OF 64
Groove M
85 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIEAKR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Let This Go on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28 and snare through bars 29-34, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Never Let This Go -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-81 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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