God, Allow me (please) to Play Music · Voice of Baceprot

115 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-64 and 107-113 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
GOD, ALLOW ME (PLEASE) TO PLAY MUSIC · BARS 58-59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 16, 21, 22 and 23 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 15 sections: 67 keep time, 29 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-65.

PART G
PART Q
PART P
PART Y
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
13 groovesAMACGAFB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God, Allow me (please) to Play Music?

138 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 God, Allow me (please) to Play Music hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 12 sittings, about 30 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 God, Allow me (please) to Play Music?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 16, 21, 22 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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