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Sussudio · Phil Collins

EXERCISE 3 OF 8
Groove B -- Outro
122 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
VERSE 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sussudio on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
70/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5 and 11-127 -- 96.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sussudio?

121 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 Sussudio hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED