Grace · Jeff Buckley

169 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 64 BPM, 7:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 39-47 and 55-61, and 4 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
GRACE · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 48, 53, 54 and 19 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 15 sections: 116 keep time, 25 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-78.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDOIVS13+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grace?

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

Is Grace hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 7:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Grace?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 48, 53, 54 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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