Sun Killer · Spirit box

119 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 13 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
SUN KILLER · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 52, 56 and 8 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 16 sections: 71 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-71.

CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AA
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGOS5AAB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sun Killer?

133 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 Sun Killer hard to play on drums?

50 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sun Killer?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 52, 56 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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