Electric Sun · Uli jon Roth

94 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 14-16 and 18, and 4 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
ELECTRIC SUN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 33, 41, 76 and 5 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-58.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART E
VERSE
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEBJK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electric Sun?

144 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 Electric Sun hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Electric Sun?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 33, 41, 76 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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