← SONGS

Sting Me · The Black Crowes

EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Groove D -- Part D
73 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMDABS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sting Me on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, snare through bars 51-58, hi-hat through bars 59-75, toms through bars 76-79 and snare through bars 80-89, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-x-----x-x---x-|
Sting Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- M, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-92 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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