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Sunburn · Muse

EXERCISE 28 OF 31
Groove N -- Outro 2
80 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART K
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEKFN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunburn on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-64, ride through bars 65-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-23, 33-44 and 81-84 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x-------x---|
SD |--x-----x-----g---g-----x---xg-g|--x-----x-----gg--gg--ggx-x---x-|
BD |------x---x---------x-----------|------x---x-----x---x-----------|
Sunburn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 56, 64 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-65 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunburn?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Sunburn?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 56, 64 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED