Sunshine Of Your Love · Cream

121 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17 and 19-24, and 3 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 19 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 25-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time, 25 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-50.

CHORUS
PART V
PART AF
PART R
8 groovesEVAFRAT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunshine Of Your Love?

116 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 Sunshine Of Your Love hard to play on drums?

51 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 Sunshine Of Your Love?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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