Sharp Dressed Man - Evan Almighty · Jo Dee Messina

117 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-19, and 19 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SHARP DRESSED MAN - EVAN ALMIGHTY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 21, 25, 36, 37, 45 and 17 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 7 sections: 79 keep time, 23 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-19.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sharp Dressed Man - Evan Almighty?

126 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 Sharp Dressed Man - Evan Almighty hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 - Evan Almighty?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 21, 25, 36, 37, 45 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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