This Is Amazing Grace · Phil Wickham

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-55 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
THIS IS AMAZING GRACE · BARS 43-44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 32, 56, 64, 70 and 6 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 14 sections: 73 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART D
VERSE
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART V
OUTRO
9 groovesNJDRS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Is Amazing Grace?

98 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 This Is Amazing Grace hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 This Is Amazing Grace?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 32, 56, 64, 70 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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