Amazing Grace · Ricky King

36 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 1:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20 and 31-33 -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
AMAZING GRACE · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 3 sections: 28 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amazing Grace?

68 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Amazing Grace 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 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 Amazing Grace?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
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