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sweet. · Static Dress

EXERCISE 3 OF 82
Groove W -- Part W
28 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBWS12AAY+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sweet. on drums

163 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, toms through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-120, snare through bars 121-128, silence through bars 129-146 and snare through bars 147-163.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 10, and 14 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
sweet. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-33 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-37 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-58 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is sweet.?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is sweet. hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.?

21 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED