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Now or Never Now · Metric

EXERCISE 12 OF 30
Join Part D to Verse 2 (bars 24-26)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, VERSE 2
PART B
PART D
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
7 groovesCEDBJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Now or Never Now on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-169.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-19, 25 and 27-39, and 9 more places -- 62.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Now or Never Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-122 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Verse 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 99-110 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 108-128 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Now or Never Now?

118 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 Now hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Now or Never Now?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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