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This Is Amazing Grace · Phil Wickham

EXERCISE 6 OF 46
Groove B -- Part B
38 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is Amazing Grace on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-71, silence through bars 72-80, toms through bars 81-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-111.

The beat

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.

    43               44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--xx-x-xxxXx-xxx|xxxx----xxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-x-----x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|-----x----------|
FT |----------------|------x---------|
BD |x--x---x--x--x--|x--x---x--x--x--|
This Is Amazing Grace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- R -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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