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Believer · Imagine Dragons

EXERCISE 18 OF 28
Run I1 · Chorus (bars 43-61)
77 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesICBFS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Believer on drums

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, toms through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-77, silence through bars 78-84 and toms through bars 85-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 30-31, and 7 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-43 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-77 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Believer?

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 hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 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 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Believer?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED