Never There · Sum 41

48 bars, 2:45, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 32-36 and 38 -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
NEVER THERE · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 10 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 27-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 6 sections: 23 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never There?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Never There hard to play on drums?

41 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 48 BARS ANALYSED
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