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The drum beat in Another Day Of Sun (Ver. 2)

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-72 -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
20/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 126 BPM
ANOTHER DAY OF SUN (VER. 2) · BAR 11

It is played on the snare, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 0 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 20 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 95 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 95, 110 and 126 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Another Day Of Sun (Ver. 2) use?

A one-bar groove on snare, in 4/4 at 126 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 58.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 9-72. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Another Day Of Sun (Ver. 2) hard?

0 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED