Faithful Then · elevation worship

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 31-32 and 34-35, and 10 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
FAITHFUL THEN · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 25 and 38 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 25-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 9 sections: 54 keep time, 44 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-41.

PART E
PART J
PART I
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKJYET+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Faithful Then?

107 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 Faithful Then hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Faithful Then?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 25 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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