Living Hope · Phil Wickham

86 bars, 4:47, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-69, 71 and 73, and 4 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
LIVING HOPE · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 31, 32, 38 and 11 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-14.

PART C
PART A
PART F
PART Q
BREAK
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXQFCA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living Hope?

72 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 Living Hope hard to play on drums?

45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Living Hope?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 31, 32, 38 and 11 more.

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