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Sugar On My Tongue v2 · Talking Heads

EXERCISE 28 OF 41
Join Part M to Part E (bars 57-59)
70 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART E
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sugar On My Tongue v2 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-54, toms through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-75 and ride through bars 76-81.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|
Sugar On My Tongue v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-65 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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