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Here Comes Sunshine · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 23 OF 41
Run D3 · Part D (bars 43-53)
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0 / 41 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART F
PART G
PART K
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLDFGKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here Comes Sunshine on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 25 and 29, and 22 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 33, 45, 48 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- L, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-25 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-46 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-75 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 9 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Here Comes Sunshine?

90 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 Here Comes Sunshine hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Here Comes Sunshine?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 33, 45, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED