My Sweet Lord · George Harrison

94 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-94 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
MY SWEET LORD · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-94.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Sweet Lord?

121 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 Sweet Lord hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 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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