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Sugarcoat · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 7 OF 34
Groove D -- Part D
48 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesACIDQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sugarcoat on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-44, snare through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-7 and 23, and 5 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Sugarcoat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 44, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-56 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sugarcoat?

97 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 Sugarcoat hard to play on drums?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 Sugarcoat?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 44, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED