Sweet Love ver 2 · Anita Baker

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 33-39 and 42-46, and 1 more place -- 69.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
SWEET LOVE VER 2 · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 2 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 4 sections: 81 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-95.

PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesJHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Love ver 2?

86 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 Love ver 2 hard to play on drums?

43 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Sweet Love ver 2?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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