I Believe · Phil Wickham

164 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 50-57 and 156-163 -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
I BELIEVE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 35, 74, 75, 89, 120, 121 and 4 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 120-121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 14 sections: 64 keep time, 10 are fills, 60 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-34.

CHORUS
PART J
PART S9
PART S
PART O
10 groovesCOIS9S+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Believe?

133 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?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 35, 74, 75, 89, 120, 121 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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