Father I Have Sinned · Dogma

140 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-15, 32-47 and 67-82, and 2 more places -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
FATHER I HAVE SINNED · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 31, 48, 49, 50, 66, 83 and 13 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 11 sections: 86 keep time, 19 are fills, 13 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-82.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART S9
OUTRO
6 groovesCEIS9S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Father I Have Sinned?

148 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 Father I Have Sinned hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 30 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 Father I Have Sinned?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 31, 48, 49, 50, 66, 83 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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