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Your Only Friends Are Make Believe · The Bloodhound Gang

EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 112-114)
123 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Only Friends Are Make Believe on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:49
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-129 and snare through bars 130-145.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Your Only Friends Are Make 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 37, 73, 77, 89, 97, 105 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 110-125 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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