Gethsemane · Om

305 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 10:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
10:09
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-98, 102-116 and 120-122, and 10 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GETHSEMANE · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 29 and 27 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

305 bars across 25 sections: 186 keep time, 33 are fills, 26 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-151.

PART F
PART S8
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
16 groovesAFFAQS8J+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gethsemane?

120 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 Gethsemane hard to play on drums?

44 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 10:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gethsemane?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 29 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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