Sweet Home Alabama · Lynyrd Skynyrd

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10-11, and 40 more places -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SWEET HOME ALABAMA · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 5, 37, 43, 73 and 93.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 2 sections: 107 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-36.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Home Alabama?

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 Sweet Home Alabama hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sweet Home Alabama?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 5, 37, 43, 73 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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