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God's Love · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 5 OF 31
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
55 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God's Love on drums

131 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53, ride through bars 54-72 and toms through bars 73-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 34-36, and 6 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|
God's Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 33, 37, 53 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is God's Love?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is God's Love hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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's Love?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 33, 37, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED