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Belief · John Mayer

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Verse
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VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Belief on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
86/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Belief -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Verse 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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