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Never Meant (Standard Tuning) · American Football

EXERCISE 14 OF 36
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
44 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Meant (Standard Tuning) on drums

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.

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
6/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-o-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |--x-------x---x-|
Never Meant (Standard Tuning) -- 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 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 15 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- O, P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED