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Neverbloom · Make Them Suffer

EXERCISE 15 OF 119
Groove I
120 / 345 BARS COVERED
0 / 119 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 6, PART A
CHORUS
PART W
PART AC
CHORUS 6
PART A
PART W
17 groovesEWAABAC+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 9
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neverbloom on drums

345 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 6:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
345
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-52, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-21 and 23, and 15 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Neverbloom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 22, 24, 25 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Neverbloom?

220 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 Neverbloom hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

345 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Neverbloom?

26 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 22, 24, 25 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 345 BARS ANALYSED