AH, JESUS · Julliany Souza

300 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 9:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
9:23
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76, 78 and 80, and 28 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
AH, JESUS · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 40, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64 and 35 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

300 bars across 26 sections: 64 keep time, 41 are fills, 91 are stops and 83 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-49.

PART S2
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART Y
PART T
PART S20
OUTRO
17 groovesRS20TS2U+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is AH, JESUS?

128 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 AH, JESUS hard to play on drums?

37 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 9:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 AH, JESUS?

20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 40, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 300 BARS ANALYSED
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