ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Equip Sunglasses on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 82
LENGTH: 2:44
DIFFICULTY: 59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-50, snare through bars 51-58, hi-hat through bars 59-70, snare through bars 71-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 11 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|

*Equip Sunglasses* -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Bars 1-30 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 21-35 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Equip Sunglasses?

120 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 Equip Sunglasses hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Equip Sunglasses?