Cherry Lee · Dover

109 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 49-55, and 3 more places -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
CHERRY LEE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-66.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1S3ES6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cherry Lee?

126 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 Cherry Lee hard to play on drums?

31 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cherry Lee?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

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