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Sunday Bloody Sunday · U2

EXERCISE 15 OF 41
Groove J
75 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART K
PART T
OUTRO
7 groovesIDMKT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunday Bloody Sunday on drums

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

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
70/100

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 20, 22 and 24, and 13 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-x---xxx-x--|
SD |----x-xxx---x-xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sunday Bloody Sunday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 55, 103, 105, 106, 107 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunday Bloody Sunday?

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 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 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 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 55, 103, 105, 106, 107 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED