A Million Gods · Conception

231 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 7:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
7:42
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 64-66, and 5 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
A MILLION GODS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 10, 18, 22, 26 and 41 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

231 bars across 28 sections: 147 keep time, 47 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-53.

PART X
PART X
PART AJ
PART BF
OUTRO
20 groovesMXBFAAAJ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Million Gods?

117 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 A Million Gods hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 7:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Million Gods?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 10, 18, 22, 26 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED
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