Sunrise · Simply Red

84 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-20, 22-44 and 46-60, and 2 more places -- 95.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SUNRISE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 4 sections: 81 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-60.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunrise?

110 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 Sunrise hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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