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Sway · Michael Bublé

Sway · Michael Bublé
EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sway on drums

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

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
56/100

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 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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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