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Away From The Sun · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 28 OF 32
Play the whole song with the record
98 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 119 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Away From The Sun on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-65, ride through bars 66-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Away From The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-79 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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