When The Sun Hits (Drums) · Slowdive

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 49-65 and 91-97 -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
WHEN THE SUN HITS (DRUMS) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 6 sections: 86 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When The Sun Hits (Drums)?

94 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 (Drums) hard to play on drums?

46 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 When The Sun Hits (Drums)?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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