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God Fearing Man · Imminence

EXERCISE 4 OF 39
Groove F -- Part F
48 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART B
PART J
PART F
PART F
PART F
OUTRO
11 groovesEBFGJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Fearing Man on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-88, silence through bars 89-92, snare through bars 93-120 and kick and crashes through bars 121-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 25-40 and 42, and 2 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
God Fearing Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-57 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-80 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is God Fearing Man?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Fearing Man hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED