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A Sunday · Jimmy Eat World

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Sunday on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, silence through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, silence through bars 50-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-68 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED