Sweet Song · Blur

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-35, 47-58 and 75-80 -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SWEET SONG · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 7 sections: 74 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-23.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Song?

85 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 Song hard to play on drums?

36 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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