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Faith · George Michael

EXERCISE 21 OF 26
Join Part G to Part J (bars 83-85)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART J
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faith on drums

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.

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
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-84, ride through bars 85-100, hi-hat through bars 101-116, silence through bars 117-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-126.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Faith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-86 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-104 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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