Sting Me · The Black Crowes

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-57, 83-85 and 87-89, and 1 more place -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STING ME · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 25, 50, 58, 66, 76 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 8 sections: 96 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-47.

PART D
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMDABS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sting Me?

120 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 Sting Me 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sting Me?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 25, 50, 58, 66, 76 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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