God Called In Sick Today · AFI

109 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-32, 51-66 and 91-106 -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
GOD CALLED IN SICK TODAY · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 34 and 6 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 20-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 48-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 69 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-106.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHLS1OS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Called In Sick Today?

136 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 Called In Sick Today hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Called In Sick Today?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 34 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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