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God Was Never on Your Side · Motörhead

EXERCISE 35 OF 42
2-bar fill at bar 68
66 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Was Never on Your Side on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37 and ride through bars 38-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-12 and 14-15, and 11 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
God Was Never on Your Side -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 37 and 12 more.

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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-42 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is God Was Never on Your Side?

88 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 Was Never on Your Side hard to play on drums?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Was Never on Your Side?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 37 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED