Sultans Of Swing Alchemy · Dire Straits

379 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 10:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
379
LENGTH
10:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 9, and 64 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SULTANS OF SWING ALCHEMY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 314, 329, 338, 345, 346, 350 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 314 · LANDS ON BAR 315 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 329 · LANDS ON BAR 330
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 338 · LANDS ON BAR 339
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 345-346 · LANDS ON BAR 347 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

379 bars across 37 sections: 321 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-123.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
18 groovesBAOEAC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sultans Of Swing Alchemy?

150 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 Sultans Of Swing Alchemy hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

379 bars, about 10:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sultans Of Swing Alchemy?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 314, 329, 338, 345, 346, 350 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 379 BARS ANALYSED
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