Never Tear Us Apart · INXS

49 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 2:54 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19 and 21-23 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
NEVER TEAR US APART · BARS 17-18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 7 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 24-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 3 sections: 6 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 29 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Tear Us Apart?

100 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Tear Us Apart hard to play on drums?

27 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tear Us Apart?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 7 more.

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