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Sun Killer · Spirit box

Sun Killer · Spirit box
EXERCISE 12 OF 50
Hold Groove G for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 16-23)
52 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sun Killer on drums

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

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, silence through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-33, silence through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-45, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xx----xx----xx--|
Sun Killer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-11 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-66 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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