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God Bless · 4x4

God Bless · 4x4
EXERCISE 20 OF 30
Run H1 · Part H (bars 138-142)
178 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART C
BREAK
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFCDS2I+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Bless on drums

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

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-112, silence through bars 113-114, hi-hat through bars 115-198 and snare through bars 199-201.

The beat

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.

    60
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
God Bless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 74-132 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 138-170 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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