SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE · Tyler, The Creator

343 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 10:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
10:08
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 42 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

343 bars across 46 sections: 259 keep time, 7 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-114.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
23 groovesGDRQU+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE?

135 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 / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

343 bars, about 10:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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