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Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd · Kevin van Gerwen

EXERCISE 8 OF 31
Groove D
66 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART N
CHORUS 5
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCENS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:36 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
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-57, ride through bars 58-73, hi-hat through bars 74-101 and ride through bars 102-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 22-28 and 42, and 2 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-x----gx-x-----|
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 5, 43, 57 and 101.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-21 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-74 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd?

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 - Lynyrd Skynyrd 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 39 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 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 5, 43, 57 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED