Suspicious Minds · Elvis Presley

126 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 35, and 27 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SUSPICIOUS MINDS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 62, 70, 78, 94, 102, 110 and 2 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 8 sections: 109 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-93.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBAEFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suspicious Minds?

116 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 Suspicious Minds hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Suspicious Minds?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 62, 70, 78, 94, 102, 110 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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