BELIEVERS · ASH DA HERO, ASH

151 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45-46 and 49-54, and 7 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BELIEVERS · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 37, 44 and 30 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 23 sections: 75 keep time, 36 are fills, 10 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-120.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
19 groovesNACEHS1+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BELIEVERS?

188 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 BELIEVERS hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 BELIEVERS?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 37, 44 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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