Kiss of Life · Sade

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

98 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

100

LENGTH

4:05

DIFFICULTY

55/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-11 and 13, and 19 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|

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

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 29-44 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 58-88 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.