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Sweet And Low · The Butterfly Effect

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEGOL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet And Low on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-64, snare through bars 65-67, toms through bars 68-69, snare through bars 70-75 and toms through bars 76-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 21-28 and 33-40 -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o-x-o-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x----x|x-x-------x-----|
Sweet And Low -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, E -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-52 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweet And Low?

103 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 Sweet And Low hard to play on drums?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 31 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 Sweet And Low?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED