Sweet Emotion · Aerosmith

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 35-41 and 51-58, and 1 more place -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SWEET EMOTION · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 42, 66, 78 and 88.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 13 sections: 78 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-112.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesBMFDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Emotion?

98 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 Emotion hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sweet Emotion?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 30, 42, 66, 78 and 88.

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