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God Of Thunder · KISS

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECGJB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Of Thunder on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-35, snare through bars 36-37, toms through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-55 and snare through bars 56-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-28, 42-48 and 74-81 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 41, 49 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-33 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-90 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is God Of Thunder?

99 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 Of Thunder hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Of Thunder?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 41, 49 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED