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It Really Is Amazing Grace · Phil Wickham, Crowder

It Really Is Amazing Grace · Phil Wickham, Crowder
EXERCISE 32 OF 77
Join Part E to Part Q (bars 47-49)
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Really Is Amazing Grace on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-35, toms through bars 36-48, hi-hat through bars 49-55 and toms through bars 56-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
It Really Is Amazing Grace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- I, U -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-50 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 56-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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