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Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up · Barry White

EXERCISE 11 OF 38
Groove G
97 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART O
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART O
PART I
BREAK 4
CHORUS 3
PART O
14 groovesEOBIS12+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
7:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-81, silence through bars 82-84, hi-hat through bars 85-87, silence through bars 88-93, hi-hat through bars 94-96 and snare through bars 97-99, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x---x---x--x-|
Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 49-106 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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