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Sunglasses At Night · Corey Hart

Sunglasses At Night · Corey Hart
EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Groove B -- Part B
119 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunglasses At Night on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-125, snare through bars 126-129 and ride through bars 130-169.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sunglasses At Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-73 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 117-130 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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