My Favorite Mistake · Sheryl Crow

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12-17 and 19-27, and 10 more places -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MY FAVORITE MISTAKE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 66, 75, 83, 91 and 1 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 3 sections: 88 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-65.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Favorite Mistake?

105 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 My Favorite Mistake hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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 My Favorite Mistake?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 66, 75, 83, 91 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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