Sweet Lady V2 · Queen

116 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 118 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-103 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
SWEET LADY V2 · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 24 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 22-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 30 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-103.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART AR
BREAK 2
12 groovesARFLAOS13+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Lady V2?

118 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Lady V2 hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Lady V2?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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