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God Bless The Usa · Lee Greenwood

God Bless The Usa · Lee Greenwood
EXERCISE 26 OF 60
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 70-72)
106 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Bless The Usa on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-43, silence through bars 44-48, toms through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-74, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
God Bless The Usa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- H, D, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-42 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-52 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-97 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 72-102 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 98-121 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-154 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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