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Eternal Sunshine · Shoot The Girl First

Eternal Sunshine · Shoot The Girl First
EXERCISE 14 OF 50
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 15-17)
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0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eternal Sunshine on drums

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.

54 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
89
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-56, silence through bars 57-59, kick and crashes through bars 60-62 and snare through bars 63-89.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--xx--x-xx--|
Eternal Sunshine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-48 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-64 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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