Sunny Day · Alternative Competition 6

103 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-22, 29-40 and 76-97 -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
SUNNY DAY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-97.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCS6S1H+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunny Day?

123 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 Day hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sunny Day?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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