Suzanne · Mark Ronson & RAYE

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11-17 and 31-37, and 4 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
SUZANNE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 7 sections: 82 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suzanne?

99 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 Suzanne hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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