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A DAY IN THE LIFE · Jeff Beck

EXERCISE 38 OF 41
Join Part J to Outro (bars 74-76)
75 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A DAY IN THE LIFE on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-13, ride through bars 14-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-39 and silence through bars 40-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
A DAY IN THE LIFE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- L, E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-44 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-46 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-66 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-77 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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