A DAY IN THE LIFE · Jeff Beck

93 bars, 5:02, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 43 and 45, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
A DAY IN THE LIFE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 19, 23, 27 and 3 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-39.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART O
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLEJS1O+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A DAY IN THE LIFE?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is A DAY IN THE LIFE hard to play on drums?

34 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A DAY IN THE LIFE?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 19, 23, 27 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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