Your Only Friends Are Make Believe · The Bloodhound Gang

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 6:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:49
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-32 and 34-36, and 11 more places -- 73.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
YOUR ONLY FRIENDS ARE MAKE BELIEVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 37, 73, 77, 89, 97, 105 and 5 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 4 sections: 130 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Only Friends Are Make Believe?

85 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 Your Only Friends Are Make Believe hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 6:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Your Only Friends Are Make Believe?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 37, 73, 77, 89, 97, 105 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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