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Sweet Home Alabama · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 17 OF 19
Groove N
110 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Home Alabama on drums

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

45 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
45/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Sweet Home Alabama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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