In The Name Of The Father · PRESIDENT

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-64 -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 38, 40 and 16 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 10 sections: 45 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-64.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART I
PART G
BREAK
PART M
CHORUS
PART A
9 groovesPDMAS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Name Of The Father?

100 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 In The Name Of The Father hard to play on drums?

55 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 In The Name Of The Father?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 38, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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