Sex And Candy · Marcy Playground

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16, 44-47 and 50 -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
SEX AND CANDY · BARS 44-45
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 29, 42, 43, 45, 47 and 2 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 7 sections: 35 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKWCBNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sex And Candy?

81 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 Sex And Candy hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sex And Candy?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 29, 42, 43, 45, 47 and 2 more.

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