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Sunshine Of Your Love · Cream

EXERCISE 21 OF 57
Groove R -- Part R
82 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART V, PART R
CHORUS
PART V
PART AF
PART R
8 groovesEVAFRAT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunshine Of Your Love on drums

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

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-52, snare through bars 53-57, toms through bars 58-80, snare through bars 81-82 and toms through bars 83-102, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T1 |x-------x-------|
T2 |----x-x-----x-x-|
FT |x-x-----x-x-----|
BD |----x-x-----x-x-|
Sunshine Of Your Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- E, V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part V -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AF -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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