Holy Forever (original) · Chris Tomlin

307 bars, 17:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, 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
307
LENGTH
17:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 226-232, 234-235 and 237, and 4 more places -- 16.2% 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 (ORIGINAL) · BAR 228
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 39, 47, 53, 55, 63, 66 and 25 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

307 bars across 31 sections: 174 keep time, 31 are fills, 7 are stops and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 225-239.

PART O
PART T
PART AT
PART S21
CHORUS 3
24 groovesBAOS21IAT+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Forever (original)?

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 (original) hard to play on drums?

41 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

307 bars, about 17:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 (original)?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 39, 47, 53, 55, 63, 66 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 307 BARS ANALYSED
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