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I Know Where I Belong · Joe Bonamassa

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
8 groovesCHDTAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Know Where I Belong on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-44, ride through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-60, silence through bars 61-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-46 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-64 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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