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What A Beautiful Name · Hillsong Worship

EXERCISE 4 OF 25
Join Chorus to Break (bars 7-9)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What A Beautiful Name on drums

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

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-25 and silence through bars 26-49, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-25 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 50-87 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 85-103 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED