Don't Need Sunshine · The Darkness

16 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 0:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:40
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12 and 14-16 -- 91.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
DON'T NEED SUNSHINE · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars across 2 sections: 11 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Need Sunshine?

95 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 Don't Need Sunshine hard to play on drums?

37 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Don't Need Sunshine?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

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