What An Awesome God (Sunset Walk) · Phil Wickham

127 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-54, 116-118 and 120-122, and 1 more place -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
WHAT AN AWESOME GOD (SUNSET WALK) · BAR 116
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 107, 108 and 109.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 107-109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 71 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-51.

PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART E
PART K
BREAK 3
PART M
OUTRO
11 groovesS8HAPE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What An Awesome God (Sunset Walk)?

148 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 What An Awesome God (Sunset Walk) hard to play on drums?

34 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 (Sunset Walk)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 107, 108 and 109.

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