← SONGS

Hosanna · Hillsong United

Hosanna · Hillsong United
EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hosanna on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, snare through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, silence through bars 26-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |---------------o|
SD |xgggxgggggggxgg-|
BD |x-xx------xx----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hosanna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-60 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED