Never Satisfied · Living Colour

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 25-35 and 45-46, and 7 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
NEVER SATISFIED · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 20, 36, 60, 70, 71 and 2 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-51.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Satisfied?

102 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 Satisfied hard to play on drums?

46 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Never Satisfied?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 20, 36, 60, 70, 71 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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