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

EXERCISE 29 OF 68
Run G1 · Part G (bars 10-25)
66 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God, Allow me (please) to Play Music on drums

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

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-26, snare through bars 27-36, hi-hat through bars 37-39, snare through bars 40-42 and toms through bars 43-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    58               59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|--------x--x--x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T2 |-----------x--x-|--xx------------|
FT |-----------x--x-|----xxxx--------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--------|-----------x--x-|
God, Allow me (please) to Play Music -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- AC, AM -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-103 -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-34 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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