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I'm a Believer · Giant

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove C -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDNFG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'm a Believer on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-70, snare through bars 71-72, hi-hat through bars 73-96, toms through bars 97-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 15 and 19, and 14 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 7 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-35 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-23 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-87 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I'm a Believer?

108 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'm a Believer hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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'm a Believer?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED