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Sunrise · Simply Red

Sunrise · Simply Red
EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunrise on drums

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

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
35/100

snare through bars 3-84.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----g-------g---|
BD |g-----g-g-------|
HF |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
Sunrise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED