Away From The Sun · 3 Doors Down

119 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 17-23 and 34-39, and 4 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
AWAY FROM THE SUN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 71 and 8 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 111-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 15 are fills, 28 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART G
PART F
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFGS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Away From The Sun?

130 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 Away From The Sun hard to play on drums?

42 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Away From The Sun?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 56, 64, 71 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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