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Gratitude (Correct Drums) · Brandon Lake

EXERCISE 15 OF 27
Join Chorus to Part S4 (bars 28-30)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S4
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDS4KBG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gratitude (Correct Drums) on drums

82 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-30, silence through bars 31-45, ride through bars 46-77 and snare through bars 78-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20 and 22-28 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x--------|
Gratitude (Correct Drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 78, 79, 80 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-57 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gratitude (Correct Drums)?

78 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 Gratitude (Correct Drums) hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Gratitude (Correct Drums)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 78, 79, 80 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED