I Am Your Sun · Jeremy Ayala-Montes

225 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 18 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
I AM YOUR SUN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14 and 60 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 22 sections: 107 keep time, 66 are fills, 22 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-125.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART AK
PART D
PART W
13 groovesCWAKLAD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am Your Sun?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Am Your Sun hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Am Your Sun?

25 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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