Sharp Dressed Man · ZZ Top

132 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 21-23 and 26-30, and 10 more places -- 74.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SHARP DRESSED MAN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 40, 41, 61, 69 and 6 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 112 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-60.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sharp Dressed Man?

125 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 hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 25, 40, 41, 61, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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