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I Don't Believe A Word · Motörhead

EXERCISE 14 OF 48
Groove E
113 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Believe A Word on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-35, ride through bars 36-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, ride through bars 73-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-112, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |------x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
HH |---------xo---o-|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|
I Don't Believe A Word -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 8-60 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-92 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

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