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Our God · Chris Tomlin

EXERCISE 5 OF 19
Groove C -- Part C
84 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAFECDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Our God on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 1-76, snare through bars 77-84, hi-hat through bars 85-108 and snare through bars 109-116.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |r---r---r---r---|
Our God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 73-88 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED