God Is · Kanye West

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-17 and 19, and 14 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
GOD IS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 3 sections: 64 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-47.

CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesAGS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Is?

105 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 hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

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