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I Believed In You · Skunk Anansie

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove K -- Chorus 2
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PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
PART C
PART L
PART R
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKALRM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Believed In You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-48, silence through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-59 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-27 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED