Sexual Healing · Marvin Gay

223 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 9:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
9:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-55, 80-95 and 104-107, and 5 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SEXUAL HEALING · BARS 44-45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 19 sections: 197 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-43.

PART C
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART C
VERSE 4
CHORUS 6
VERSE 5
4 groovesEDCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sexual Healing?

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 Sexual Healing hard to play on drums?

59 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 9:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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