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Sundown · Leisure

Sundown · Leisure
EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Groove G
54 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sundown on drums

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

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-44, silence through bars 45-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-67.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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