When The Sun Hits · Slowdive

111 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 49-65 and 91-97 -- 42.3% 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 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 38, 39, 40 and 13 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 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When The Sun Hits?

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 hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 When The Sun Hits?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 38, 39, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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