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Thoughts Of The Sun · Shivers

EXERCISE 15 OF 91
Groove G
104 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART A
PART AH
PART F
PART J
PART AL
PART S18
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNJAVC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thoughts Of The Sun on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68 and ride through bars 69-72, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    170
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Thoughts Of The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- A, N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-49 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED