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God Knows · Haruhi Suzumiya

God Knows · Haruhi Suzumiya
EXERCISE 3 OF 32
Groove C -- Part C
95 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
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, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 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
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-129, kick and crashes through bars 130-131, toms through bars 132-133, hi-hat through bars 134-169 and silence through bars 170-173.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
God Knows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-92 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 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?

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