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Sunday Bloody Sunday (C02) by RG · U2

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove C -- Chorus 2
0 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART K
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesCDBKJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunday Bloody Sunday (C02) by RG on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-115 and kick and crashes through bars 116-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 20, and 22 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x---x-x-x---|
SD |----x-xx----x-xx|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sunday Bloody Sunday (C02) by RG -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 55, 103, 111, 113 and 115.

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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-58 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-64 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-114 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunday Bloody Sunday (C02) by RG?

102 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 Sunday Bloody Sunday (C02) by RG hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sunday Bloody Sunday (C02) by RG?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 55, 103, 111, 113 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED