Sway · Bic Runga

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 8 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SWAY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 81.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 88 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-28.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sway?

95 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 Sway hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sway?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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