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Praise · Elevation Worship

EXERCISE 28 OF 75
Groove P
111 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART AC
PART M
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNFCACM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Praise on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, toms through bars 28-39, hi-hat through bars 40-56, toms through bars 57-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38 and 60-61, and 13 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------x---|
T2 |---x--x---------|
FT |---x--x-------xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Praise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 30, 31, 39 and 25 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 -- N, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-40 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-83 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Praise?

127 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 Praise hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Praise?

17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 30, 31, 39 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED