The Sinking Sun · Entheos

230 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
7:18
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 142, 144 and 146, and 1 more place -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE SINKING SUN · BAR 149
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 47 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 4-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 28-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 22 sections: 140 keep time, 53 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-177.

CHORUS
PART AR
PART BH
PART CE
PART CL
OUTRO 2
19 groovesMCLARBHCE+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sinking Sun?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Sinking Sun hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 31 sittings, about 25 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 The Sinking Sun?

20 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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