ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sooner Or Later on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 93 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 84
LENGTH: 3:37
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

hi-hat through bars 2-29, snare through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-55, snare through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-66 and silence through bars 67-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 50-52, and 1 more place -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24                               25
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
HH |--------------------------------|----------------------------o---|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-----gg|--------x-----x---------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
HF |--------g---------------g-------|--------g---------------g-------|

Sooner Or Later -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 51 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
Bars 30-42 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Sooner Or Later?

93 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 Sooner Or Later hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sooner Or Later?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 51 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED