Believe · Yellowcard

194 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 13 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BELIEVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 44, 48, 56, 64, 88 and 7 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 15 sections: 150 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-152.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesBMPRT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Believe?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Believe hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Believe?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 44, 48, 56, 64, 88 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Yellowcard drum parts

EVERY YELLOWCARD CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →