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

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove M -- Chorus
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0 / 49 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-6, ride through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-13 and ride through bars 14-66, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Only God I See Up Here Is Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED