God Story · Anne Wilson

117 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-55, 57-62 and 65-67, and 6 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
GOD STORY · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 74, 75 and 9 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 15 are fills, 23 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

PART B
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNAISW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Story?

168 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 Story hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Story?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 74, 75 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →