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I Believe In A Thing Called Love · The Darkness

EXERCISE 28 OF 36
Join Part D to Part B (bars 67-69)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART B
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBFAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Believe In A Thing Called Love on drums

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

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-50, toms through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
I Believe In A Thing Called Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, B -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-43 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-68 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-93 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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