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Sharp Dressed Man - Evan Almighty · Jo Dee Messina

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sharp Dressed Man - Evan Almighty on drums

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

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-85, snare through bars 86-89, hi-hat through bars 90-93, snare through bars 94-97, hi-hat through bars 98-101 and snare through bars 102-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 84-90 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-102 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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