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thank you lord -live workship · Don Moen

EXERCISE 12 OF 54
Run D1 · Part D (bars 8-24)
78 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S
PART L
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAGSDL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play thank you lord -live workship on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-115, ride through bars 116-117, hi-hat through bars 118-123 and ride through bars 124-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-34, 44 and 48, and 9 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
thank you lord -live workship -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 39, 59 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- G, A -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 33-108 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-61 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-103 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is thank you lord -live workship?

90 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 thank you lord -live workship hard to play on drums?

43 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 thank you lord -live workship?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 39, 59 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED