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You Wouldn't Believe · 311

EXERCISE 9 OF 35
2-bar fill at bar 31 and 1 more
122 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Wouldn't Believe on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, silence through bars 73-76, hi-hat through bars 77-146 and snare through bars 147-152.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
You Wouldn't Believe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-94 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-138 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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