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Sunday · Cranberries

EXERCISE 4 OF 17
Fill at bar 25, 33, 43 and 3 more (a small one)
43 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART S2
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesDBS2S1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunday on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
82/100

ride through bars 2-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 16 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------------x-------x---|
Sunday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 43, 46 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-17 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunday?

120 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 Sunday hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Sunday?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 33, 43, 46 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED