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God Is · Kanye West

EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Groove D
51 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesAGS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Is on drums

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.

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
22/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-66 and silence through bars 67-75.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
God Is -- 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 12 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED