Sucker · Jonas Brothers

103 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 18-21 and 44-46, and 1 more place -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SUCKER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 19 sections: 88 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-50.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
14 groovesEBGDI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sucker?

138 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 Sucker hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. 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 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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