Caress Me Down · Sublime

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 12 and 14-15, and 11 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
CARESS ME DOWN · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 18, 34, 46 and 6 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-45.

PART B
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
7 groovesFBIKS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caress Me Down?

80 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 Caress Me Down hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Caress Me Down?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 18, 34, 46 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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