Son Of A Preacher Man · Dusty Springfield

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 2:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-10 and 13-15, and 3 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
SON OF A PREACHER MAN · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 55.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 55
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 6 sections: 47 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesACFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Son Of A Preacher Man?

91 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 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?

55 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Son Of A Preacher Man?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 55.

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