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Sundowning · Vitruvian

Sundowning · Vitruvian
EXERCISE 28 OF 34
Join Part N to Part AC (bars 82-84)
91 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART AC
PART F
BREAK 4
CHORUS
PART P
PART N
PART AC
OUTRO
13 groovesJAGPFAC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sundowning on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-22, silence through bars 23-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58, toms through bars 59-72 and ride through bars 73-76, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|x-o-x-x-o-x-x---|
SD |x---x-------x---|--x-----x-----x-|
BD |---x-----xx----x|-x--xx-x----xx--|
Sundowning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-23 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-106 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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