Cherry · Spitz

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6 and 11-14, and 9 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
CHERRY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 103.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 102-103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-71.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEFCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cherry?

98 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Cherry?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 102 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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