Don't look back into the sun · Libertines

132 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 37-43 and 61-67, and 3 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
DON'T LOOK BACK INTO THE SUN · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 7 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 14 sections: 101 keep time, 13 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-130.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGJACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't look back into the sun?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Don't look back into the sun hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Don't look back into the sun?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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