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Never Let You Go · Third Eye Blind

EXERCISE 18 OF 30
Join Part G to Part K (bars 51-53)
96 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART K
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
BREAK
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHGKD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Let You Go on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-27, hi-hat through bars 28-45, ride through bars 46-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Never Let You Go -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-55 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-80 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 73-113 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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