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I Believe · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCLS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Believe on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-81, toms through bars 82-96, ride through bars 97-119 and toms through bars 120-121, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 19 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x-------|
I Believe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 41, 45, 53 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-101 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Believe?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 I Believe hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Believe?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 41, 45, 53 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED