Eternal Sunshine · Shoot The Girl First

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-15 and 27-31, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ETERNAL SUNSHINE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 24, 32 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesADUMT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal Sunshine?

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 Eternal Sunshine hard to play on drums?

54 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?

89 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 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 Eternal Sunshine?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 24, 32 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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