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Suzanne · Mark Ronson & RAYE

Suzanne · Mark Ronson & RAYE
EXERCISE 4 OF 15
Groove A (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
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
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suzanne on drums

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

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-46, ride through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x----xx-x---x-|
Suzanne -- 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 14 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 -- D, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-46 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-78 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED