Sunny · Boney M.

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31-42 and 45, and 4 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
SUNNY · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 28, 30, 44, 46, 54 and 4 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 11 sections: 93 keep time, 10 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-107.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKEMCS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunny?

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

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sunny?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 28, 30, 44, 46, 54 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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