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When the Sun Hits (2026 Version) · Slowdive

EXERCISE 13 OF 24
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 5-29)
56 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS3DS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When the Sun Hits (2026 Version) on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-30, silence through bars 31-47, hi-hat through bars 48-71, silence through bars 72-77 and snare through bars 78-79, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 12 and 14-22, and 13 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
When the Sun Hits (2026 Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 13, 23, 25, 27, 47 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-68 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is When the Sun Hits (2026 Version)?

95 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 When the Sun Hits (2026 Version) hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in When the Sun Hits (2026 Version)?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 13, 23, 25, 27, 47 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED