I Don't Believe A Word · Motörhead

174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 6:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 73-79, and 3 more places -- 25.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 12 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 12 sections: 138 keep time, 18 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART P
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCHPKS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Don't Believe A Word?

107 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 Don't Believe A Word hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Don't Believe A Word?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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