Sunshine V2 · Alice in Chains

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SUNSHINE V2 · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 54.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 2 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-86.

PART C
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunshine V2?

80 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 V2 hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sunshine V2?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 54.

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