God Smack · Alice in Chains

118 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 43-49, and 3 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
GOD SMACK · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 34, 50, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 11 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-118.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Smack?

125 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 Smack hard to play on drums?

60 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Smack?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 34, 50, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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