It Really Is Amazing Grace · Phil Wickham, Crowder

133 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
IT REALLY IS AMAZING GRACE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 47 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 15 sections: 58 keep time, 53 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-27.

PART E
PART I
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AE
PART E
OUTRO 2
11 groovesUEIAEQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Really Is Amazing Grace?

128 BPM, in 4/4, 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 It Really Is Amazing Grace hard to play on drums?

55 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 It Really Is Amazing Grace?

19 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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