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Sweep Me Off My Feet · Pond

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweep Me Off My Feet on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, silence through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-84.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-------x-o-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |----------x-----|
Sweep Me Off My Feet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-57 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-79 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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