I Believe · Killswitch Engage

124 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 37-44 and 61-67, and 1 more place -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
I BELIEVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19 and 16 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 18 sections: 60 keep time, 22 are fills, 10 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-11.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AC
PART AD
PART S16
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCMS16EAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Believe?

130 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?

50 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 I Believe?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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