Like a Prayer · Dogma

113 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44 and 62-68 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
LIKE A PRAYER · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36 and 25 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 53 keep time, 31 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAIIELS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like a Prayer?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Like a Prayer hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Like a Prayer?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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