God Am · Alice in Chains

79 bars, 4:32, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-30, 40-46 and 48-54, and 2 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
GOD AM · BARS 24-25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 5 sections: 70 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-55.

PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Am?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is God Am hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 God Am?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

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