Sex Baby Sex · Superbus

84 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 41-47 and 65-67, and 3 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SEX BABY SEX · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 68 and 76.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
4 groovesCGJS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sex Baby Sex?

127 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 Sex Baby Sex hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sex Baby Sex?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 68 and 76.

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