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Beautiful · Creed

EXERCISE 15 OF 49
Groove E
35 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART F
COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART S6
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKIS6FB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beautiful on drums

76 bars, 4:13, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-12, ride through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-28, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 43 and 46-48, and 2 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x--xx-xx--xx-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Beautiful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 19, 21, 22 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-36 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beautiful?

72 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Beautiful hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Beautiful?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 19, 21, 22 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED