Don't Believe A Word · Gary Moore

179 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 8:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-108, 115-129 and 131-132, and 3 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
DON'T BELIEVE A WORD · BAR 103
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 110, 141, 153, 154 and 162.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 153-154 · LANDS ON BAR 155 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 162 · LANDS ON BAR 163
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 17 sections: 138 keep time, 6 are fills, 13 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-29.

PART C
PART B
PART H
PART L
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesPBCHK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Believe A Word?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Don't Believe A Word hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Don't Believe A Word?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 110, 141, 153, 154 and 162.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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