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Too Sweet · Hozier

EXERCISE 16 OF 19
Join Outro to Verse (bars 95-97)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, VERSE
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
VERSE
4 groovesADFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Sweet on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, silence through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80, ride through bars 81-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-120.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-47 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-97 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED