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Sucker · Marcus King, Arcane

Sucker · Marcus King, Arcane
EXERCISE 3 OF 29
Groove G
19 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sucker on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-25, toms through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-51, toms through bars 52-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-70.

The beat

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.

    17                               18
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-------|--------x-----x---x-----x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----x-----|x-----------x-------x-----x-----|
Sucker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F, Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-35 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-55 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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