Holy Forever · Bethel Music, Jenn Johnson

91 bars, 5:03, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 19-24 and 33 -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
HOLY FOREVER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 49, 50, 57, 58, 66 and 15 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 66-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 13 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
PART B
PART A
BREAK
PART E
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesSAENAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Forever?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Holy Forever hard to play on drums?

39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Holy Forever?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 49, 50, 57, 58, 66 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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