I Believed In You · Skunk Anansie

124 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-30, 93-102 and 109-114, and 1 more place -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
I BELIEVED IN YOU · BAR 94
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 57, 58, 76, 108 and 2 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-90.

PART D
PART H
PART L
PART C
PART L
PART R
PART A
CHORUS 2
12 groovesKALRM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Believed In You?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Believed In You hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Believed In You?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 57, 58, 76, 108 and 2 more.

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