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Another Day · Dream Theater

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove N -- Part N
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0 / 45 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART Q
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHNS3BQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Day on drums

76 bars, 4:19, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-31, ride through bars 32-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-45, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 54-56, and 1 more place -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------------------x-x-|
BD |x-----------x---------------x-------x---x-----------------------|
Another Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-34 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-38 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-47 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Another Day?

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

Is Another Day hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Another Day?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED