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Sugar · Maroon 5

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 13 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sugar on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-68, silence through bars 69-76, hi-hat through bars 77-112 and snare through bars 113-116.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED