Now or Never · Kendrick Lamar

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13-15 and 18-19, and 15 more places -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
NOW OR NEVER · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 13 sections: 85 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
BREAK 5
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDS11BAS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Now or Never?

107 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 Now or Never hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Now or Never?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

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