Sledgehammer · Peter Gabriel

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 16-38 and 40-58, and 12 more places -- 69.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
SLEDGEHAMMER · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 3 sections: 113 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-86.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sledgehammer?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sledgehammer hard to play on drums?

54 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sledgehammer?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 87.

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