Sugaree · Grateful Dead

139 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 6:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-16, 18-28 and 30-32, and 6 more places -- 87.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SUGAREE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 65 and 93.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 3 sections: 89 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-64.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugaree?

128 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Sugaree hard to play on drums?

48 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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 Sugaree?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 65 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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