Never There · Hoobastank

130 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 15 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
NEVER THERE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 88.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 9 sections: 30 keep time, 2 are fills, 86 are stops and 10 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDS2S1S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never There?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Never There hard to play on drums?

42 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?

130 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Never There?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 88.

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