I'm Believer (for Cant Stop) · Smash Mouth + Weezer

117 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-28, 51-58 and 81-88, and 3 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
I'M BELIEVER (FOR CANT STOP) · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 64, 106, 114 and 116.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 13 sections: 87 keep time, 4 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-45.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEGCBA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'm Believer (for Cant Stop)?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I'm Believer (for Cant Stop) hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 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'm Believer (for Cant Stop)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 64, 106, 114 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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