Sunshine · Alice in Chains

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 21, and 3 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SUNSHINE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 20, 22, 38, 54, 55 and 3 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-53.

PART D
PART J
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesPDJFV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunshine?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sunshine hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Sunshine?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 20, 22, 38, 54, 55 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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