Hosanna · Hillsong United

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-24 and 76-78 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 77 BPM
HOSANNA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 45, 69, 79 and 87.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 70 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART E
PART K
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAETOS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hosanna?

77 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 Hosanna hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Hosanna?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 45, 69, 79 and 87.

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