← SONGS

On The Sunset Streams · Shivers

EXERCISE 2 OF 58
Groove D -- Part D
20 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AK
OUTRO
BREAK 3
11 groovesMS15AIAKD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Sunset Streams on drums

203 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 5:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-45, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 110-111, 114 and 118-119, and 9 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    142          143
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|o---o---o---|
SD |------------|x-------ggxx|
BD |x-x---x---x-|------x-----|
On The Sunset Streams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 95 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is On The Sunset Streams?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 On The Sunset Streams hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 On The Sunset Streams?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 95 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED