Cheap Sunglasses · ZZ Top

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 16-21 and 27-33, and 14 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
CHEAP SUNGLASSES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 42, 52 and 60.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 4 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-102.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheap Sunglasses?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cheap Sunglasses hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Cheap Sunglasses?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 42, 52 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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