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EXERCISE 18 OF 54
Join Part I to Chorus 2 (bars 33-35)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
PART AI
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBITAIW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gods on drums

141 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-102, silence through bars 103-108 and snare through bars 109-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11, and 17 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 37, 41, 43 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-116 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-77 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gods?

178 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 Gods hard to play on drums?

52 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?

141 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Gods?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 9, 13, 33, 37, 41, 43 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED