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Jesus Christ · Brand New

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 6 PASSED · 92 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesus Christ on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-93, silence through bars 94-96, hi-hat through bars 97-112 and kick and crashes through bars 113-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-85, 87 and 89, and 2 more places -- 92.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesus Christ?

88 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 Christ 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED