Sentimental · IV Of Spades

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 55-57 and 79, and 1 more place -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SENTIMENTAL · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 20 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 12 sections: 45 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-7.

CHORUS
PART O
PART T
PART V
PART I
PART O
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEVTOI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sentimental?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sentimental hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sentimental?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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