SO BE IT · Elevation worship

131 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-74 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SO BE IT · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 81, 84, 86, 92, 94 and 8 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 17 sections: 84 keep time, 14 are fills, 7 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-74.

PART E
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
13 groovesIEJUG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SO BE IT?

127 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 SO BE IT hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 SO BE IT?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 81, 84, 86, 92, 94 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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