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Sunglasses (Single) · Black Country, New Road

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove AZ -- Verse
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PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART AK
VERSE
PART BJ
VERSE 2
18 groovesAGAKAZBJG+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 27
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 7
JOIN · 19
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunglasses (Single) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
10:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    140
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sunglasses (Single) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- AZ, AK -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-26 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-46 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-81 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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