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Every Breath You Take · The Police

EXERCISE 12 OF 20
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 50-52)
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Every Breath You Take on drums

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

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-51, hi-hat through bars 52-93 and ride through bars 94-113.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Every Breath You Take -- 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 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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