ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sun//Eater on drums

208 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 140 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 208
LENGTH: 5:57
DIFFICULTY: 95/100

silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, silence through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44 and ride through bars 45-46, and 31 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71, 119 and 121-122, and 6 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.

    121                                                              122
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x-------------------------------|
RD |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x----x-----x-x--|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|

Sun//Eater -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 73 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Bars 25-69 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through Part C and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Break 2 and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
and 15 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Sun//Eater?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sun//Eater hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 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 Sun//Eater?

28 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED