Never Turn Back · Crush 40

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62, 64-70 and 72-76, and 4 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
NEVER TURN BACK · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 23, 31, 39 and 24 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 16 sections: 87 keep time, 30 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-97.

PART D
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART V
7 groovesJVDNAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Turn Back?

90 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 Turn Back hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Turn Back?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 23, 31, 39 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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