Swingin' · Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-27, and 6 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SWINGIN' · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 84, 116 and 128.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 11 sections: 108 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-27.

PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swingin'?

100 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 Swingin' hard to play on drums?

43 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?

129 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Swingin'?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 84, 116 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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