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Never Turn Back · Crush 40

EXERCISE 9 OF 53
Fill at bar 14 and 102 (a small one)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART V
7 groovesJVDNAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Turn Back on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-39, ride through bars 40-43, hi-hat through bars 44-51, snare through bars 52-55 and ride through bars 56-77, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----X--g----X---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Never Turn Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-44 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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