Belief · John Mayer

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-29, 31-45 and 47, and 17 more places -- 72.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BELIEF · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 46, 62, 70, 78 and 86.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 3 sections: 93 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-29.

VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Belief?

104 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 Belief hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Belief?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 46, 62, 70, 78 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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