Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up · Barry White

159 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 7:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
7:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-31, 33-47 and 52-54, and 5 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
NEVER, NEVER GONNA GIVE YA UP · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 55, 56, 85 and 86.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 17 sections: 117 keep time, 4 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-54.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART I
BREAK 4
CHORUS 3
PART O
14 groovesEOBIS12+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up?

86 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, Never Gonna Give Ya Up hard to play on drums?

63 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 7:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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, Never Gonna Give Ya Up?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 55, 56, 85 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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