Sundown · Leisure

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-25, 27-41 and 51-65 -- 83.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SUNDOWN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time, 1 is a fill and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-44.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sundown?

98 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 Sundown hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sundown?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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