Sweetheart · Gavin Adcock

116 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 17 and 36, and 11 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SWEETHEART · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 19, 35, 43, 63, 71 and 6 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 12 are fills, 20 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-30.

CHORUS
PART L
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
10 groovesGFHCL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweetheart?

135 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 Sweetheart hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Sweetheart?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 19, 35, 43, 63, 71 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Gavin Adcock drum parts

EVERY GAVIN ADCOCK CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →