Sway · Michael Bublé

98 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-16 and 18-23, and 10 more places -- 75.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
SWAY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 25, 32, 33, 49, 56 and 5 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 97-98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars: 85 keep time and 13 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-96.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sway?

123 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?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sway?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 25, 32, 33, 49, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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