Sunday Morning Coming Down · Kris Kristofferson

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-19 and 35-44, and 2 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 5 sections: 40 keep time, 1 is a fill and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS4S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunday Morning Coming Down?

78 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 Morning Coming Down hard to play on drums?

33 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sunday Morning Coming Down?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

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