Pour Some Sugar On Me · Def Leppard

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-27 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 17, 34, 60, 62, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 8 sections: 71 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-91.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBMJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pour Some Sugar On Me?

85 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 Pour Some Sugar On Me hard to play on drums?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Pour Some Sugar On Me?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 17, 34, 60, 62, 64 and 4 more.

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