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Sugar Song To Bitter Step · Unison Square Garden

EXERCISE 16 OF 73
Groove J
56 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sugar Song To Bitter Step on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-82, toms through bars 83-90 and snare through bars 91-92, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |------x--x--------x--x--------x--x--------x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Sugar Song To Bitter Step -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-14 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 14-38 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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