Watermelon Sugar · Harry Styles

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-32, 34-45 and 54-68 -- 76% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
WATERMELON SUGAR · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 49 keep time, 1 is a fill and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-68.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
VERSE 2
BREAK 3
VERSE 3
6 groovesDCS1S7S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watermelon Sugar?

95 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 Watermelon Sugar hard to play on drums?

60 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Watermelon Sugar?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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