Sugar · Maroon 5

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-51, 53-67 and 77-79, and 3 more places -- 81.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUGAR · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 80, 88 and 104.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 98 keep time, 4 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-51.

PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugar?

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 hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sugar?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 80, 88 and 104.

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