Keep Sweet · Spiritbox

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
KEEP SWEET · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 47 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 5-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 46 keep time, 53 are fills, 7 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-80.

PART S2
PART H
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AA
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNS2HANAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep Sweet?

150 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 Keep Sweet hard to play on drums?

60 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Keep Sweet?

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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