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SO BE IT · Elevation worship

EXERCISE 9 OF 57
Groove E -- Part E
52 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART A
PART G
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
13 groovesIEJUG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SO BE IT on drums

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

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, toms through bars 14-19 and kick and crashes through bars 20-25, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|
SO BE IT -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, G, U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 28-106 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 29-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-74 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-127 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-105 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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