You Wouldn't Believe · 311

152 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 32 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 5 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 11 are fills, 45 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART F
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesEJFCS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Wouldn't Believe?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is You Wouldn't Believe hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in You Wouldn't Believe?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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