Sweet Boy · Malcolm Todd

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:35 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-41 and 50-57 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SWEET BOY · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 4 sections: 48 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-41.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Boy?

88 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 Boy hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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