Stuck In The Middle With You · Stealers Wheel

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
15/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-32, 47-70 and 81-102 -- 80.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 89 keep time, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-35.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBAS1S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stuck In The Middle With You?

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 Stuck In The Middle With You hard to play on drums?

15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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