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God Called In Sick Today · AFI

EXERCISE 23 OF 25
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 88-90)
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Called In Sick Today on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-33, toms through bars 34-47, hi-hat through bars 48-66 and toms through bars 67-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|--------x-----g-|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----x-----|
God Called In Sick Today -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, L -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-51 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 81-91 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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