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Never Satisfied · Living Colour

EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Fill at bar 16, 36, 60 and 83
67 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Satisfied on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-96 and kick and crashes through bars 97-98.

The beat

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.

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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Never Satisfied -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-25 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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