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Bless God · Brooke Ligertwood

Bless God · Brooke Ligertwood
EXERCISE 24 OF 67
Run K1 · Part K (bars 67-76)
139 / 305 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART N
PART S8
PART X
PART S13
PART AA
PART AD
PART X
CHORUS 3
22 groovesBXAAS13S1+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 4
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bless God on drums

305 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 8:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
8:24
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-43, hi-hat through bars 44-63, toms through bars 64-96, silence through bars 97-110 and toms through bars 111-127, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 136-151 and 253-270 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    136              137
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|x-----x---------|
Bless God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 43, 63, 111, 113, 127 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- X, AA -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-116 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-114 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S8 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bless God?

145 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 Bless God hard to play on drums?

32 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 8:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 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 Bless God?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 43, 63, 111, 113, 127 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED