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Gratitude (Live) · Brandon Lake

EXERCISE 13 OF 48
2-bar fill at bar 19
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gratitude (Live) on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-29, silence through bars 30-44, hi-hat through bars 45-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Gratitude (Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-52 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 45-64 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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