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Sharp Dressed Man · Chrome Division

Sharp Dressed Man · Chrome Division
EXERCISE 6 OF 17
Fill at bar 48 and 96 (a small one)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS3BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sharp Dressed Man on drums

118 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-49, snare through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-67, snare through bars 68-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-31, 33-46 and 49-59, and 7 more places -- 78.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sharp Dressed Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 48, 80, 96, 112 and 118.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sharp Dressed Man?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sharp Dressed Man hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sharp Dressed Man?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 48, 80, 96, 112 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED