Who you say I am · Hillsong

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 5:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-65 and 108-135 -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
WHO YOU SAY I AM · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 151 and 152.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 151-152 · LANDS ON BAR 153 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-135.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEHS10S1C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who you say I am?

87 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Who you say I am hard to play on drums?

42 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Who you say I am?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 151 and 152.

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