Description
Notes From John
BPM = 81. Very tom-heavy. Hi-hats loose are marked. Rim and cross-stick are marked.
For the player
Hymn of Heaven cut — kit sounds programmed / sampled under stacked percussion. Sit in the pocket under that worship stack; don’t invent the buried layers John left off the page. Chart is tom-heavy; leave the low, close-tuned tom voices alone — don’t mash them into a single floor. Ghosts are written in the verses — keep them quiet. Open hats are marked; bark the opens where John wrote the circle. Hi-hats loose are written into the Verse 2 pullback and again before the last Chorus — leave them sloshy. Build Bridge hits at 3:03: hi-hats normal, rim, then cross-stick — play those textures, don’t turn them into a full snare backbeat. Down Bridge at 2:39 is rest — sit out. Watch the 2/4 flips; sextuplets land near the end. Listen first; the pocket is the job, not the count-in.
Drum Sheet Music for “Battle Belongs” by Phil Wickham
