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How Great Is Our God · Chris Tomlin

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDS8JAS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Great Is Our God on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-43 and silence through bars 44-50, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19-25 and 53-59, and 2 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
How Great Is Our God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 12, 18, 26, 28, 30 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-35 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-61 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is How Great Is Our God?

78 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 How Great Is Our God hard to play on drums?

42 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in How Great Is Our God?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 12, 18, 26, 28, 30 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED