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AH, JESUS · Julliany Souza

AH, JESUS · Julliany Souza
EXERCISE 10 OF 97
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
110 / 300 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
PART S2
PART E
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 19
LINK · 9
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play AH, JESUS on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
9:23
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-39, hi-hat through bars 40-56, ride through bars 57-59, toms through bars 60-68 and snare through bars 69-72, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----------|
AH, JESUS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- V, U -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-153 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-85 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-133 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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