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Dr. Sunshine is Dead · Will Wood

EXERCISE 23 OF 41
Join Break to Part C (bars 47-49)
76 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHCS12UK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dr. Sunshine is Dead on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-25, ride through bars 26-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-48 and toms through bars 49-57, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-35, and 5 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |X---------------X---------------X---------------X---------------|
SD |----g-------x-----------x-----------g-------x-----------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Dr. Sunshine is Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 29, 33, 40 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, U -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 56-94 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dr. Sunshine is Dead?

130 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 Dr. Sunshine is Dead hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dr. Sunshine is Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 29, 33, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED