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Don't look back into the sun · Libertines

EXERCISE 20 OF 32
Join Part G to Chorus 2 (bars 35-37)
124 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't look back into the sun on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-132.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Don't look back into the sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-37 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-53 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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