SUPER SUNSHINE · BAND-MAID

160 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
SUPER SUNSHINE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 9, 11, 27 and 43 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 27-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 49 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AD
PART AK
PART AQ
PART AV
PART W
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDKAKHAV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SUPER SUNSHINE?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is SUPER SUNSHINE hard to play on drums?

63 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 SUPER SUNSHINE?

18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 9, 11, 27 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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