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Throne of the Sunset · Annisokay

EXERCISE 6 OF 39
Fill at bar 16 and 64 (a small one)
64 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART W
OUTRO
11 groovesCKWRY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Throne of the Sunset on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 12 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |------x---x-----x-------|
Throne of the Sunset -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 28, 40, 48, 64, 88 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-44 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-100 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-86 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Throne of the Sunset?

145 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 Throne of the Sunset hard to play on drums?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Throne of the Sunset?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 28, 40, 48, 64, 88 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED