I Shot The Sheriff · Bob Marley

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 22-41 and 43-64, and 2 more places -- 95.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
I SHOT THE SHERIFF · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars: 94 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-94.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Shot The Sheriff?

94 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 I Shot The Sheriff hard to play on drums?

37 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?

94 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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