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Jesus Freak · DC Talk

Jesus Freak · DC Talk
EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Fill at bar 20
88 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART R
11 groovesCELNR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesus Freak on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-12, toms through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-43, toms through bars 44-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-75, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 21-27 and 29-35, and 4 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Jesus Freak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 64, 97, 98 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-116 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 36-49 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-87 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-100 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-124 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesus Freak?

104 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 Freak 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Jesus Freak?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 64, 97, 98 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED