Ain't No Sunshine · Bill Withers

39 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:02 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-23, 26 and 28-37 -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 76 BPM
AIN'T NO SUNSHINE · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 2 sections: 30 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-39.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ain't No Sunshine?

76 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 Ain't No Sunshine hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 39 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Bill Withers drum parts

EVERY BILL WITHERS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →