Sunglasses (Single) · Black Country, New Road

210 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 10:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
10:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 140-141, 144-149 and 152-153, and 1 more place -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SUNGLASSES (SINGLE) · BAR 140
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 55, 56, 60, 63, 64, 76 and 5 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 23 sections: 157 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-127.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART AK
VERSE
PART BJ
18 groovesAGAKAZBJG+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunglasses (Single)?

80 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 (Single) hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 10:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 22 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 (Single)?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 55, 56, 60, 63, 64, 76 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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