Sweet Sensation · Santa Cruz

125 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 33 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SWEET SENSATION · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 36, 44, 48 and 8 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 14 are fills, 26 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-53.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesCDLPK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Sensation?

130 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 Sensation hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in Sweet Sensation?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 36, 44, 48 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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