Spoonman · Soundgarden

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 24, 26, 28 and 11 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 14 sections: 39 keep time, 17 are fills and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-67.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 7
PART O
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK 8
12 groovesGXS14OU+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spoonman?

93 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 Spoonman hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Spoonman?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 24, 26, 28 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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