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Sunday Morning · Maroon 5

EXERCISE 3 OF 32
Groove S -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
43 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEASFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunday Morning on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, ride through bars 39-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52 and ride through bars 53-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 8-13 and 15-21, and 1 more place -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 22, 38, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunday Morning?

88 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 hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Morning?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 22, 38, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED