Sunglasses At Night · Corey Hart

169 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 41-50 and 70-75, and 9 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 117, 128, 129, 136 and 145.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 128-129 · LANDS ON BAR 130 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 145 · LANDS ON BAR 146
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 6 sections: 155 keep time, 5 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-116.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunglasses At Night?

128 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 Sunglasses At Night hard to play on drums?

52 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sunglasses At Night?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 117, 128, 129, 136 and 145.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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