Sorrow · Mort Shuman

85 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 116 BPM, 4:23 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-35, 37-43 and 45-49, and 1 more place -- 92.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SORROW · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 3 sections: 51 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-43.

OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sorrow?

116 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Sorrow hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sorrow?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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