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Saving Grace. · KIRBY

Saving Grace. · KIRBY
EXERCISE 13 OF 14
Run I1 · Outro 2 (bars 94-98)
90 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS2IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saving Grace. on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
36/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-85, silence through bars 86-93 and hi-hat through bars 94-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-20 and 22-36, and 4 more places -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Saving Grace. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 13, 21, 53 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-95 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Saving Grace.?

133 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 Saving Grace. hard to play on drums?

36 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Saving Grace.?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 13, 21, 53 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED