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Take Me To Church · Hozier

EXERCISE 14 OF 22
Groove K -- Part K
46 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take Me To Church on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-15, silence through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-46, ride through bars 47-57 and kick and crashes through bars 58-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x----x-x--|
Take Me To Church -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED