Sitting On Top Of The World · Cream

57 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 67 BPM, 4:56 of playing on ride, snare and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 15-19 and 33-37 -- 62.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 67 BPM
SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 8 sections: 27 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK 3
5 groovesCS8BS5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sitting On Top Of The World?

67 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sitting On Top Of The World hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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