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EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheap Sunglasses on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Cheap Sunglasses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-85 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-35 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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