Playing God‎ · Motionless in white

171 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-59, 61-62 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
PLAYING GOD‎ · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 18 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 17 sections: 60 keep time, 24 are fills, 53 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

PART B
PART I
PART O
PART S
CHORUS
PART AG
BREAK
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGAQSAGB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playing God‎?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Playing God‎ 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?

171 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Playing God‎?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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