A Sunday · Jimmy Eat World

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 7 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
A SUNDAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 48, 64, 68 and 4 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJGS3S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Sunday?

86 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 A Sunday hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 A Sunday?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 40, 44, 48, 64, 68 and 4 more.

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