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Jesus Built My Hotrod · Ministry

EXERCISE 12 OF 22
Join Chorus 2 to Part H (bars 71-73)
134 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesBHS2S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesus Built My Hotrod on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
85/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-51, snare through bars 52-54, hi-hat through bars 55-94, snare through bars 95-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-135, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 27-35 and 37-40, and 7 more places -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-gx--gx--gx--gx-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Jesus Built My Hotrod -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 36, 41, 52, 59, 64 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 69-84 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesus Built My Hotrod?

125 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 Jesus Built My Hotrod hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Jesus Built My Hotrod?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 36, 41, 52, 59, 64 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED