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Sunglasses · Black Country, New Road

EXERCISE 5 OF 99
Groove E -- Part E
36 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 99 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
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
GROOVE · 28
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunglasses on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-43, ride through bars 44-71, hi-hat through bars 72-94 and silence through bars 95-101, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    119
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sunglasses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 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 -- BG, CO -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CL -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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