There was Jesus · Zach Williams featuring Dolly Parton

132 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76, 78 and 80, and 4 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
THERE WAS JESUS · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 16 sections: 96 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-89.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART B
PART C
PART S11
PART I
PART J
13 groovesACBIJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is There was Jesus?

152 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 There was Jesus hard to play on drums?

30 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 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 There was Jesus?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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