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Jesus He Knows Me · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART C
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCKES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesus He Knows Me on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-63 and snare through bars 64-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-27, 41-47 and 78-84, and 1 more place -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x------x--------|
RD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|x---xx-x-x--xx--|
Jesus He Knows Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 40, 48, 52, 60, 65 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-32 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-41 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-69 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesus He Knows Me?

95 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 He Knows Me hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 He Knows Me?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 40, 48, 52, 60, 65 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED