Sugar (Live) · Maroon 5

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-37, 54-68 and 82-96, and 1 more place -- 58.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUGAR (LIVE) · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time, 2 are fills, 15 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-13.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesDCBS8S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugar (Live)?

120 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 Sugar (Live) hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sugar (Live)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

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