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Here Comes The Sun · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesEGJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here Comes The Sun on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-55, toms through bars 56-58, hi-hat through bars 59-62, toms through bars 63-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-69, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 34-45 and 95-107, and 1 more place -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Here Comes The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 15, 29, 30, 32, 46 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-78 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 75-92 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Here Comes The Sun?

129 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 The Sun hard to play on drums?

51 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Sun?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 15, 29, 30, 32, 46 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED