I Believe In A Thing Called Love · The Darkness

113 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 53-58 and 61-63, and 3 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 18, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 16 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 22 are fills, 21 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-89.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBFAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Believe In A Thing Called Love?

128 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 I Believe In A Thing Called Love hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Believe In A Thing Called Love?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 18, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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