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Sweetness · Jimmy Eat World

EXERCISE 2 OF 28
Groove C -- Part C
30 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C, OUTRO
PART B
PART C
PART G
PART B
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLCGBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sweetness on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-57, ride through bars 58-75, hi-hat through bars 76-93 and ride through bars 94-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-64, 67-72 and 95-100, and 2 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Sweetness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 34 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-78 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sweetness?

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 Sweetness hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sweetness?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 34 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED