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Never Meant · American Football

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove R -- Part R
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CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART P
PART R
PART S
PART W
BREAK 3
11 groovesS12ESRJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Meant on drums

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 139 BPM, 4:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-65 -- 12.8% 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-g-x-g-x-g-x-o-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Never Meant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 16, 18 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- R, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Never Meant?

139 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Meant hard to play on drums?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Meant?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 16, 18 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED