Something More · Sugarland

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 23-28 and 33-39 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
SOMETHING MORE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 18, 22, 30, 31, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 13 sections: 46 keep time, 20 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART H
PART H
CHORUS
PART T
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNHEDT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something More?

102 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 Something More hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Something More?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 18, 22, 30, 31, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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