Sunshine · Rich Chamomile

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 24 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SUNSHINE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 44, 76, 84, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 83 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-75.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDKS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunshine?

100 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 hard to play on drums?

43 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 44, 76, 84, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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