Sunbather · Deafheaven

381 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 11:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
381
LENGTH
11:43
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-99, 101-103 and 105-107, and 21 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SUNBATHER · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 60, 62, 88 and 34 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 160 · LANDS ON BAR 161

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

381 bars across 23 sections: 270 keep time, 40 are fills, 28 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-159.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesADTBDKA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunbather?

130 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 Sunbather hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

381 bars, about 11:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sunbather?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 60, 62, 88 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 381 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Deafheaven drum parts

EVERY DEAFHEAVEN CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →