Sugar Song To Bitter Step · Unison Square Garden

138 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SUGAR SONG TO BITTER STEP · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 44 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 14 sections: 64 keep time, 50 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-28.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesISGAHS13+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugar Song To Bitter Step?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Song To Bitter Step hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Song To Bitter Step?

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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