The Messiah Will Come Again · Gary Moore

98 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 92 BPM, 6:21 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-65 -- 95.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE MESSIAH WILL COME AGAIN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-66.

OUTRO
BREAK 2
4 groovesDS4S1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Messiah Will Come Again?

92 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Messiah Will Come Again hard to play on drums?

25 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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