Sapphire · Ed Sheeran

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-23 and 25-28, and 2 more places -- 64.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SAPPHIRE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 12 sections: 51 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBS1AEG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sapphire?

95 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 Sapphire hard to play on drums?

57 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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