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Jesus Messiah · Chris Tomlin

EXERCISE 26 OF 34
Join Part J to Part S9 (bars 69-71)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART S9
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDJBCG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jesus Messiah on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, toms through bars 36-46, hi-hat through bars 47-63 and snare through bars 64-66, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-28, 30 and 32, and 6 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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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-x-----|
Jesus Messiah -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 46, 62, 79, 87, 93 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, J -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-36 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-70 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jesus Messiah?

83 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 Messiah hard to play on drums?

44 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?

96 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Jesus Messiah?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 46, 62, 79, 87, 93 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED