Son of a Preacher Man (AI Generated) · Dusty Springfield

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:27 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 16, and 7 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SON OF A PREACHER MAN (AI GENERATED) · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 47 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-42.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGCABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Son of a Preacher Man (AI Generated)?

90 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 Son of a Preacher Man (AI Generated) hard to play on drums?

49 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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