Sucker · Marcus King, Arcane

70 bars, 3:42, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13, 17-18 and 35, and 4 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SUCKER · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 34, 36, 37 and 12 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 18 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCDQS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sucker?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sucker hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Sucker?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 34, 36, 37 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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