If I Ever Lose My Faith In You · Sting

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-21 and 31-43, and 1 more place -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
IF I EVER LOSE MY FAITH IN YOU · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 102 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-98.

VERSE
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
PART F
VERSE 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADEFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If I Ever Lose My Faith In You?

99 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 If I Ever Lose My Faith In You hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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