Never Say Never · Justin Bieber

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-32, 37-50 and 54, and 2 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
NEVER SAY NEVER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 6 sections: 83 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Say Never?

97 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 Say Never hard to play on drums?

52 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Never Say Never?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

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