La Bondad de Dios · Essential Worship, Blanca

66 bars, 4:00, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 15-20 and 22-24, and 2 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 64 BPM
LA BONDAD DE DIOS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 5 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 39 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesICS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Bondad de Dios?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is La Bondad de Dios hard to play on drums?

42 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 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 La Bondad de Dios?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 37, 41, 45 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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