Long Time Sunshine · Weezer

58 bars, 3:09, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 29-31 and 33-35 -- 81.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 73 BPM
LONG TIME SUNSHINE · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 36.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 27 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBS5S1S3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Time Sunshine?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Long Time Sunshine hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 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 Long Time Sunshine?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 36.

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