Sunshower · Chris Cornell

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-90, 92-94 and 96-98 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SUNSHOWER · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 39, 40, 52, 53, 71, 74 and 19 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 74-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 7 sections: 39 keep time, 25 are fills, 6 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-51.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesS1UFJS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sunshower?

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 Sunshower hard to play on drums?

40 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Sunshower?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 39, 40, 52, 53, 71, 74 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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