Neverland · Avantasia

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 33 and 35-50, and 3 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
NEVERLAND · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 51.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 103 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-120.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Neverland?

105 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 Neverland hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Neverland?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 51.

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