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Holy Is The Lord · Chris Tomlin

EXERCISE 5 OF 31
Run B1 · Part B (bars 2-15)
55 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIEBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy Is The Lord on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 2-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-55 and 73-88 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 37, 56, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I, E, B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-26 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-74 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy Is The Lord?

84 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 Holy Is The Lord hard to play on drums?

46 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Is The Lord?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 37, 56, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED