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Don't Believe A Word · Gary Moore

EXERCISE 8 OF 57
Join Part C to Part B (bars 29-31)
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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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Believe A Word on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-33, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    103
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Don't Believe A Word -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- P, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-80 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-93 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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