Faithfully · Journey

51 bars, 3:08, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 32-34 and 36-38, and 3 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
FAITHFULLY · BAR 19
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 29, 30, 31, 35, 39 and 3 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 5 sections: 33 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faithfully?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Faithfully hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 29, 30, 31, 35, 39 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 51 BARS ANALYSED
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