Gratitude (Live) · Brandon Lake

114 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 4:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13-18 and 21-24, and 11 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
GRATITUDE (LIVE) · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 28, 46, 53 and 26 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 32 are fills, 6 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCIS4SB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gratitude (Live)?

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 (Live) hard to play on drums?

44 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 (Live)?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 28, 46, 53 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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