Sweep Me Off My Feet · Pond

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 26 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SWEEP ME OFF MY FEET · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 55, 56, 61, 64, 68 and 76.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-40.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweep Me Off My Feet?

100 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 Sweep Me Off My Feet hard to play on drums?

46 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sweep Me Off My Feet?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 55, 56, 61, 64, 68 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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