God Bless · 4x4

201 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-75, 97-112 and 116-131, and 1 more place -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
GOD BLESS · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 199, 200 and 201.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 199-201 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 18 sections: 156 keep time, 3 are fills, 16 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-166.

PART C
BREAK
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCDS2I+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Bless?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is God Bless hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in God Bless?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 199, 200 and 201.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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