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This Is Our God · Phil Wickham

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove N -- Outro 2
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0 / 45 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNS9DIG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is Our God on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, toms through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25 and silence through bars 26-27, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-52, 73 and 75-77, and 3 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-----xx-----|
This Is Our God -- 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 6, 8, 16, 43, 44, 45 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- N -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-37 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-55 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Is Our God?

80 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 This Is Our God hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in This Is Our God?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 43, 44, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED