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BELIEVERS · ASH DA HERO, ASH

BELIEVERS · ASH DA HERO, ASH
EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove N -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
19 groovesNACEHS1+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BELIEVERS on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-33, silence through bars 34-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
BELIEVERS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- N -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-25 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-33 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part S5 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-58 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part S9 and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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