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Sweet Lady V2 · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove AR -- Part AR
0 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AR
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Lady V2 on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-38, snare through bars 39-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |--xx--xx--xx|
BD |xx--xx--xx--|
Sweet Lady V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AR, F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-19 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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