Spirit In The Sky · Norman Greenbaum

129 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-35, 38-39 and 42-48, and 11 more places -- 81.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
SPIRIT IN THE SKY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 49, 57, 89 and 127.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 2 sections: 117 keep time, 5 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-48.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spirit In The Sky?

129 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 Spirit In The Sky hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spirit In The Sky?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 49, 57, 89 and 127.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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