Candy · Alex G

90 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 13-16 and 21-24, and 5 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
CANDY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 8 sections: 43 keep time, 35 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAS7FGS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Candy?

110 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 Candy hard to play on drums?

34 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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