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I See The Sun · Akrem Chekki

EXERCISE 16 OF 42
Groove M
127 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
INTRO
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHJVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I See The Sun on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-61, snare through bars 62-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-94, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-12, 14 and 33-35, and 15 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I See The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 32, 49, 60, 61, 77 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-34 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-62 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 58-95 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-119 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I See The Sun?

110 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 I See The Sun 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I See The Sun?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 32, 49, 60, 61, 77 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED