Sundowning · Vitruvian

115 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-46 and 51-58 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
SUNDOWNING · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 47, 48, 49, 50, 59, 60 and 20 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 47-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 59-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 69-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 26 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-111.

PART F
BREAK 4
CHORUS
PART P
PART AC
OUTRO
13 groovesJAGPFAC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sundowning?

117 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 Sundowning hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Sundowning?

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 47, 48, 49, 50, 59, 60 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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