Strawberry Tea · Tiny Tim

72 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 2:42 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
13/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-55 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
STRAWBERRY TEA · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 21 keep time and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-57.

BREAK 2
BREAK 4
PART B
BREAK 5
OUTRO
BREAK 6
7 groovesS2S8S4CS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strawberry Tea?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Strawberry Tea hard to play on drums?

13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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