I Thank God · Maverick City Music

252 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
7:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 170-184, 186-239 and 241-252 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
I THANK GOD · BARS 170-171
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 39, 45, 79 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

252 bars across 12 sections: 200 keep time, 24 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-252.

PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
PART T
OUTRO 2
7 groovesYBEFT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Thank God?

130 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 I Thank God hard to play on drums?

49 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 7:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 I Thank God?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 39, 45, 79 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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