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Sunbather · Deafheaven

EXERCISE 3 OF 108
Groove BD -- Outro
124 / 381 BARS COVERED
0 / 108 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AU
PART BD
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesADTBDKA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 28
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunbather on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
381
LENGTH
11:43
DIFFICULTY
42/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-24, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------xxxxxxxx|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Sunbather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 89 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 -- AD, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-349 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-229 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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