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Holy Forever (original) · Chris Tomlin

EXERCISE 11 OF 101
Groove E -- Part E
92 / 307 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART E
PART A
PART E
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 20
LINK · 8
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy Forever (original) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
307
LENGTH
17:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100

toms through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-12, toms through bars 13-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-29 and snare through bars 30-39, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    228
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------x---|
FT |x-----x---------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Holy Forever (original) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- BA, AK -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-13 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-41 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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