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

EXERCISE 17 OF 64
Join Part D to Chorus 3 (bars 124-126)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
23 groovesGDRQU+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 23
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE on drums

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

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
10:08
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-140, silence through bars 141-148, hi-hat through bars 149-162, silence through bars 163-168 and kick and crashes through bars 169-180, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-115 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 122-163 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 188-254 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 343 BARS ANALYSED