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Sugar (Live) · Maroon 5

EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Groove C -- Part C
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
BREAK 2
PART C
OUTRO
6 groovesDCBS8S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sugar (Live) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, snare through bars 38-53, hi-hat through bars 54-69 and silence through bars 70-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-26 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 68-79 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED