Take Me To Church · Hozier

69 bars, 3:53, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 39-41, and 3 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 64 BPM
TAKE ME TO CHURCH · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 60.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-45.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S3
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHGKS1M+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me To Church?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Take Me To Church hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Take Me To Church?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 60.

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