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Believer Beginner · Imagine Dragons

EXERCISE 5 OF 14
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 30-32)
90 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABFS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Believer Beginner on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bars 1-76, silence through bars 77-84 and toms through bars 85-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 21 more places -- 68.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------r-----x-----------|
FT |x-----------------x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------------------|
Believer Beginner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 28-76 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Believer Beginner?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Believer Beginner hard to play on drums?

39 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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