Faith · George Michael

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 61-75 and 101-115 -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
FAITH · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 76 and 84.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 99 keep time, 3 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBGJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faith?

96 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 Faith 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Faith?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 76 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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