Every Breath You Take · The Police

113 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-40, 52-66 and 68-92 -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 4 sections: 104 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-112.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Every Breath You Take?

117 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 Every Breath You Take hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Every Breath You Take?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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