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Sunburn · Fuel

EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove D -- Part D
45 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGKCDE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunburn on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, ride through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 43-47 and 53-59, and 3 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 26, 42, 50, 52, 60 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-97 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-53 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-73 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunburn?

94 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 Sunburn 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sunburn?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 26, 42, 50, 52, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED