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Ed Sheeran;) · Shape of You

Ed Sheeran;) · Shape of You
EXERCISE 27 OF 51
Groove L -- Part L
170 / 275 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
PART D
BREAK 3
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
22 groovesPDKBS13+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ed Sheeran;) on drums

275 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 11:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
11:26
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 3-20, snare through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-52, snare through bars 53-68 and silence through bars 69-72, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 190, 215-226 and 231-246, and 1 more place -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    215
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Ed Sheeran;) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- P, D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-40 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-76 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-124 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 129-135 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 135-152 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ed Sheeran;)?

96 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 Ed Sheeran;) hard to play on drums?

39 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 11:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED