Sherry Bass · YAMU

176 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 40 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SHERRY BASS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 56, 112 and 140.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 11 sections: 158 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-96.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGFIDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sherry Bass?

180 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 Sherry Bass hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sherry Bass?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 56, 112 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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