A Sharp · Beautiful Sedativ

56 bars, 3:21, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-12, 17-20 and 25-28, and 3 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 67 BPM
A SHARP · BARS 9-10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 4 sections: 47 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-54.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
4 groovesBS1S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Sharp?

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

Is A Sharp hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 8 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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