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Sweat · Tool

EXERCISE 25 OF 54
Groove X -- Part X
145 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, PART X
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART V
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
6 groovesJMAAVR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweat on drums

177 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 3:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-45, ride through bars 46-57, hi-hat through bars 58-85 and ride through bars 86-109, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 26-31, and 2 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---x-o-x-x-|
SD |x-----------|
BD |------x---x-|
Sweat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase), M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 113-127 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweat?

156 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sweat hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sweat?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED