Every Breath You Take
The Police · 1983
Clean, understated groove ideal for practicing consistency.
- Artist
- The Police
- Year
- 1983
- Genre
- rock
- Drummer
- Stewart Copeland
- Tempo
- 117 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- straight 8ths
- Difficulty
- beginner
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
70bpm
Building
94bpm
Target
117bpm
The feel
A straight 8ths in 4/4 around 117 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
Form
Intro · Verse · Chorus · Verse · Chorus · Bridge · Guitar Interlude · Verse · Chorus · Outro
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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