I Know Where I Belong · Joe Bonamassa

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16, 24-36 and 65-66, and 8 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
I KNOW WHERE I BELONG · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 21, 22, 44, 45, 47, 56 and 24 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 17 sections: 90 keep time, 30 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-16.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 6
8 groovesCHDTAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Know Where I Belong?

100 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 Know Where I Belong hard to play on drums?

50 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Know Where I Belong?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 21, 22, 44, 45, 47, 56 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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