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Sunshine's Gone · 1Kempfi1

EXERCISE 5 OF 11
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 16-18)
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0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunshine's Gone on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
30/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-72, toms through bars 73-89 and silence through bars 90-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-71 and 89, and 1 more place -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Sunshine's Gone -- 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 10 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-89 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sunshine's Gone?

150 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's Gone hard to play on drums?

30 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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