Our God · Chris Tomlin

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-43, and 1 more place -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
OUR GOD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 111 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-60.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAFECDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Our God?

110 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 Our God hard to play on drums?

52 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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