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Sunday Morning · No Doubt

EXERCISE 28 OF 60
Join Part M to Part O (bars 63-65)
116 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART O
PART A
PART E
PART M
PART O
PART V
PART X
OUTRO
11 groovesBMEKV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunday Morning on drums

161 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-48, snare through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-64, ride through bars 65-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-86, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 49, 50, 64, 80, 87, 88 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-49 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-127 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-59 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunday Morning?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sunday Morning hard to play on drums?

57 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 49, 50, 64, 80, 87, 88 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED