The Only God I See Up Here Is Me · Dead Witness

136 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 8 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
THE ONLY GOD I SEE UP HERE IS ME · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 16 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 8 sections: 67 keep time, 22 are fills, 28 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-110.

PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART P
PART S5
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMJPS5S+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Only God I See Up Here Is Me?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Only God I See Up Here Is Me hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Only God I See Up Here Is Me?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 16 more.

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