Never Wanted To Dance · Mindless Self Indulgence

143 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicMetal150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 21-22, and 7 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
NEVER WANTED TO DANCE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 51, 66 and 7 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 10 sections: 105 keep time, 14 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-102.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Wanted To Dance?

180 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 Wanted To Dance hard to play on drums?

36 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Never Wanted To Dance?

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 19, 20, 51, 66 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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