Kiss From A Rose · Seal

55 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 1:15 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
21/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 41-43 and 45-49, and 1 more place -- 73% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
KISS FROM A ROSE · BAR 18
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 5 sections: 34 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1AS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kiss From A Rose?

132 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Kiss From A Rose hard to play on drums?

21 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kiss From A Rose?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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