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If I Ever Lose My Faith In You · Sting

EXERCISE 18 OF 22
Join Part F to Verse 4 (bars 64-66)
114 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, VERSE 4
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I Ever Lose My Faith In You on drums

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

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-44, ride through bars 45-53, hi-hat through bars 54-81 and ride through bars 82-98, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
If I Ever Lose My Faith In You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-106 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-61 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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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