PRAY · I Prevail

194 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 21-23 and 53, and 15 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
PRAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 31 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 14 sections: 108 keep time, 37 are fills, 22 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-94.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AC
OUTRO
9 groovesCHACAIS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PRAY?

185 BPM, in 3/4, 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 PRAY hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in PRAY?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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