Never Let You Go · Third Eye Blind

113 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 27 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
NEVER LET YOU GO · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 31, 45, 73, 78 and 79.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 78-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-113.

CHORUS
PART K
BREAK
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHGKD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Let You Go?

114 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 You Go hard to play on drums?

48 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Let You Go?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 31, 45, 73, 78 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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