← SONGS

Sharp Dressed Man · ZZ Top

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 98 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sharp Dressed Man on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 2-132.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-130 -- 11 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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