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I Believe · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Believe on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-35, snare through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-52, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
I Believe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-22 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-28 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-37 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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