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Suspicious Minds · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suspicious Minds on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, ride through bars 43-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-126.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Suspicious Minds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-53 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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