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Setting Sun · Again

Setting Sun · Again
EXERCISE 22 OF 68
Groove N
65 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART B
BREAK
PART B
PART M
PART B
PART M
PART P
CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AL
OUTRO
8 groovesZBMPAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Setting Sun on drums

119 bars, 6:19, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, ride through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54 and ride through bars 55-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 65 and 67, and 13 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---------------x-------|
RD |----x-------x---x---x-------x---|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x---------|
Setting Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 18, 26, 34 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-55 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 31-60 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Setting Sun?

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

Is Setting Sun hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Setting Sun?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 18, 26, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED