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SUPER SUNSHINE · BAND-MAID

EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AD
PART AK
PART AQ
PART AV
PART W
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDKAKHAV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SUPER SUNSHINE on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-35, silence through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-79 and silence through bars 80-96, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
SUPER SUNSHINE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-139 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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