Never Meant (Standard Tuning) · American Football

117 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 4:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-62 -- 12.9% 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 MEANT (STANDARD TUNING) · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 15 and 4 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 10 are fills and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-91.

PART B
PART G
PART J
PART L
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPS8BOG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Meant (Standard Tuning)?

145 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 (Standard Tuning) 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 (Standard Tuning)?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 15 and 4 more.

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