Sunglasses · Black Country, New Road

229 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119-120, 123-125 and 127-128, and 3 more places -- 6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUNGLASSES · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 42, 43, 59, 60, 74, 75 and 28 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 74-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 18 sections: 151 keep time, 35 are fills, 11 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-135.

PART AF
PART A
PART BD
PART BO
PART BZ
OUTRO 2
18 groovesCOAFBDBOA+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunglasses?

120 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 hard to play on drums?

54 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 7:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 25 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 Sunglasses?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 42, 43, 59, 60, 74, 75 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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