Nikad više · Vili Smiths

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-56, 58-72 and 75-87, and 2 more places -- 96.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NIKAD VIŠE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 3 sections: 113 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-87.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nikad više?

130 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 Nikad više hard to play on drums?

26 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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