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Don't Stop Believin' · Journey

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove D
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PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEHS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Stop Believin' on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-63 and kick and crashes through bars 64-65, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 28 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----------x-----|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----------|
T2 |------------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Don't Stop Believin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 13, 48 and 49.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't Stop Believin'?

119 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 Don't Stop Believin' hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stop Believin'?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 13, 48 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED