Never Take it · Twenty One Pilots

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 31-45 and 47-54, and 5 more places -- 74.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NEVER TAKE IT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 80, 88 and 104.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 4 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
5 groovesCEAS8S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Take it?

120 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 Take it hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Never Take it?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 80, 88 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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