Sure Ok · First Day Back

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-32, 48-50 and 52-54 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SURE OK · BARS 14-15
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 33, 41, 45 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 4 sections: 44 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-32.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sure Ok?

90 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 Sure Ok 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sure Ok?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 33, 41, 45 and 2 more.

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