Sweet Illness Of Mine · Lifelover

96 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 29-36 and 45-60, and 1 more place -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SWEET ILLNESS OF MINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-96.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Illness Of Mine?

125 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 Illness Of Mine hard to play on drums?

42 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sweet Illness Of Mine?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

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