What A Beautiful Name · Hillsong Worship

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-16 and 50-65, and 2 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 19 sections: 43 keep time, 1 is a fill, 14 are stops and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-65.

PART C
PART S6
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART S16
13 groovesBS6GCS16+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What A Beautiful Name?

103 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 What A Beautiful Name hard to play on drums?

33 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in What A Beautiful Name?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.

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