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Sunshine V2 · Alice in Chains

EXERCISE 14 OF 27
Fill at bar 38
68 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART C
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunshine V2 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 2-38, snare through bars 39-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-61, hi-hat through bars 62-70 and snare through bars 71-86.

The beat

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.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Sunshine V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-66 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED