I Speak Jesus · Charity Gayle / Steven Musso

98 bars, 5:18, at 74 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.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 37 and 83 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
I SPEAK JESUS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 26, 38, 39 and 17 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 29 keep time, 23 are fills, 6 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-13.

PART C
PART F
PART S4
PART M
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS8CFOU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Speak Jesus?

74 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 I Speak Jesus hard to play on drums?

37 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 I Speak Jesus?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 26, 38, 39 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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