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Sunshower · Chris Cornell

Sunshower · Chris Cornell
EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Join Part F to Part I (bars 60-62)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
7 groovesS1UFJS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sunshower on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-39, hi-hat through bars 40-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-66, toms through bars 67-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-99, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Sunshower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- U, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-72 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 65-84 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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