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Sunmaker · Scream

Sunmaker · Scream
EXERCISE 31 OF 65
Groove Q -- Part Q
172 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART Q
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
PART E
PART U
CHORUS 4
10 groovesIEDUK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunmaker on drums

207 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-35, snare through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-77 and snare through bars 78-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37-38 and 41-42, and 28 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    72
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Sunmaker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 14, 15, 46, 47, 54 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-116 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-56 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-80 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunmaker?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sunmaker hard to play on drums?

47 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?

207 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Sunmaker?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 14, 15, 46, 47, 54 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED