Sugar/Tzu · Black Midi

167 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-98 and 100-107 -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SUGAR/TZU · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 29, 39, 49, 50, 51 and 9 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 23 sections: 107 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-97.

PART K
CHORUS
PART V
PART AH
PART AK
PART AR
PART AX
OUTRO
21 groovesOAHAKBHAX+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugar/Tzu?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sugar/Tzu hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 29 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/Tzu?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 29, 39, 49, 50, 51 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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