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Sweet Sensation · Santa Cruz

EXERCISE 16 OF 46
Join Part G to Chorus (bars 20-22)
90 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesCDLPK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweet Sensation on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-44, snare through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Sweet Sensation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-86 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-97 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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