Believe · Lenny Kravitz

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-25, 34-45 and 54-59 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BELIEVE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 29, 49, 63, 67, 71 and 4 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 8 sections: 63 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-25.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Believe?

81 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 Believe hard to play on drums?

40 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Believe?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 29, 49, 63, 67, 71 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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