Thoughts Of The Sun · Shivers

225 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 57-58 and 61-63, and 12 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THOUGHTS OF THE SUN · BAR 170
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 39, 40, 44 and 34 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 20 sections: 115 keep time, 40 are fills, 41 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-159.

PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART A
PART AH
PART J
PART AL
PART S18
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNJAVC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thoughts Of The Sun?

150 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 Thoughts Of The Sun hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Thoughts Of The Sun?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 39, 40, 44 and 34 more.

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