God Knows · Haruhi Suzumiya

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.

150 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

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 129, 168 and 173.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 168 · LANDS ON BAR 169
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 173
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 152 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-75.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesBCFS11MFill 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 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 129, 168 and 173.

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

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