God Bless The Usa · Lee Greenwood

162 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 56-57 and 72-74, and 15 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GOD BLESS THE USA · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 26 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 17 sections: 44 keep time, 32 are fills, 44 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-65.

PART S2
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHS2DFA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Bless The Usa?

140 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 Bless The Usa hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bless The Usa?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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