Sugar On My Tongue v2 · Talking Heads

81 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-20 and 23-24, and 8 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SUGAR ON MY TONGUE V2 · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 28, 48, 55, 56, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 9 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-41.

PART D
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDEMI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugar On My Tongue v2?

128 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 On My Tongue v2 hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Sugar On My Tongue v2?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 28, 48, 55, 56, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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