Sylvia · Focus

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 25-31 and 35-41, and 3 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SYLVIA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 50, 83 and 91.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-49.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesECS8S1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sylvia?

108 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 Sylvia hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Sylvia?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 50, 83 and 91.

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