God Knows... · 平野綾

173 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 40 and 42-48, and 8 more places -- 55.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
GOD KNOWS... · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 41, 49, 59, 91, 99 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 144 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-167.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBCGS11PFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Knows...?

150 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 Knows... hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Knows...?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 41, 49, 59, 91, 99 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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