Oh! Sweet Nuthin' · The Velvet Underground

273 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 7:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
273
LENGTH
7:23
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11, and 27 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
OH! SWEET NUTHIN' · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 48, 64, 80, 88, 96 and 32 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

273 bars across 14 sections: 168 keep time, 38 are fills and 52 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 230-246.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART W
PART AF
OUTRO
6 groovesABWAFAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oh! Sweet Nuthin'?

148 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 Oh! Sweet Nuthin' hard to play on drums?

49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

273 bars, about 7:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Oh! Sweet Nuthin'?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 48, 64, 80, 88, 96 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 273 BARS ANALYSED
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