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I Believe · Phil Wickham

EXERCISE 17 OF 45
Run J1 · Part J (bars 66-76)
74 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART S9
PART S
PART O
10 groovesCOIS9S+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Believe on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-21, toms through bars 22-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-35, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B, C, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-61 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 66-82 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 78-105 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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