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What A Beautiful Name · Hillsong Worship Resources

What A Beautiful Name · Hillsong Worship Resources
EXERCISE 12 OF 43
Run C1 · Part C (bars 9-18)
34 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART B
PART C
PART S4
PART E
PART F
PART H
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQCKEM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What A Beautiful Name on drums

74 bars, 4:26, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-19, silence through bars 20-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-47, snare through bars 48-52 and ride through bars 53-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |------------------r-----r-------|
T1 |----------------x-----x---------|
T2 |----x-----x-----------------x-x-|
FT |----x-----x---------g-------g-g-|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
What A Beautiful Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 45, 46, 54, 58, 61, 62 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-35 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-39 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What A Beautiful Name?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is What A Beautiful Name hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 What A Beautiful Name?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 45, 46, 54, 58, 61, 62 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED