What An Awesome God · Phil Wickham

54 bars, 2:54, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19 and 21-24 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
WHAT AN AWESOME GOD · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 45 and 54.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 54
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 7 sections: 23 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS5DFMI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What An Awesome God?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is What An Awesome God hard to play on drums?

62 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 What An Awesome God?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 45 and 54.

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