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Father I Have Sinned · Dogma

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 62 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Father I Have Sinned on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-31, ride through bars 32-48, hi-hat through bars 49-66 and ride through bars 67-83, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Father I Have Sinned -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 14-35 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 87-134 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-67 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 89-124 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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