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Living Hope · Phil Wickham

EXERCISE 19 OF 42
Groove N
55 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living Hope on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-19, hi-hat through bars 20-22, toms through bars 23-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-37 and toms through bars 38-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----xx--|
BD |x--x----xx-x---x|
Living Hope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- X, F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-70 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED