Too Sweet · Hozier

120 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32 and 58-79 -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
TOO SWEET · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 80.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 6 sections: 106 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
VERSE
4 groovesADFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Sweet?

117 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 Too Sweet hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Too Sweet?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 80.

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