God · I Prevail

87 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 48-50 and 52-54 -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
GOD · BARS 48-49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 38, 84, 85 and 86.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 84-86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 12 sections: 55 keep time, 5 are fills, 14 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-54.

PART E
PART G
PART M
PART S
PART AA
PART AF
CHORUS
OUTRO
12 groovesAIMAAGS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is God hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 38, 84, 85 and 86.

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