Suddenly · Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard

132 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10-19 and 21-33, and 9 more places -- 60.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 136 BPM
SUDDENLY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 7 sections: 124 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-65.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suddenly?

136 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 Suddenly hard to play on drums?

36 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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