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God Knows · Aya Hirano

God Knows · Aya Hirano
EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Groove D -- Part D
97 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesBDGS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Knows on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-131, toms through bars 132-135, hi-hat through bars 136-169 and silence through bars 170-173.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 42-58 and 60-75, and 4 more places -- 56.5% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
God Knows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 41, 59, 91, 99, 117 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-117 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-139 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 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 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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.

How many fills are in God Knows?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 41, 59, 91, 99, 117 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED