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God Is Dead · Carnivore

EXERCISE 14 OF 77
4-bar fill at bar 21
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0 / 77 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART R
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART Q
PART AI
OUTRO
9 groovesARKQX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Is Dead on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-40, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 13-19 and 79-86 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |X-------X-------|
God Is Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 21, 22, 23, 24, 32 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- A, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is God Is Dead?

148 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 Is Dead hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 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 Is Dead?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 21, 22, 23, 24, 32 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED