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There was Jesus · Zach Williams featuring Dolly Parton

There was Jesus · Zach Williams featuring Dolly Parton
EXERCISE 26 OF 30
Run N1 · Outro (bars 121-126)
93 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART B
PART C
PART S11
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
13 groovesACBIJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play There was Jesus on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-42, hi-hat through bars 43-53, silence through bars 54-56, hi-hat through bars 57-73 and snare through bars 74-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---------------|
There was Jesus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- I, C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 67-107 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 98-116 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 113-122 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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