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God Story · Anne Wilson

God Story · Anne Wilson
EXERCISE 36 OF 44
Run N2 · Outro (bars 92-111)
90 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Story on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-26, toms through bars 27-28 and silence through bars 29-30, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----x-----------|
God Story -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- N, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-95 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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