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I Am Your Sun · Jeremy Ayala-Montes

I Am Your Sun · Jeremy Ayala-Montes
EXERCISE 18 OF 106
Fill at bar 18 (a small one)
82 / 225 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Your Sun on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-17, hi-hat through bars 18-44, snare through bars 45-51, hi-hat through bars 52-76 and snare through bars 77-83, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-x---------x---x---|
I Am Your Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- C -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-38 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-220 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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