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Suddenly · Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard

Suddenly · Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 80 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suddenly on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 1-130 and kick and crashes through bars 131-132.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Suddenly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 104-111 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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