Another Day In Paradise · Phil Collins

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-64 and 83-89 -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 6 sections: 121 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-64.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Day In Paradise?

102 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 Another Day In Paradise hard to play on drums?

31 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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