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Watermelon Sugar · Harry Styles

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove D -- Verse
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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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watermelon Sugar on drums

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

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-45, silence through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|
Watermelon Sugar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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