Another Day · Paul McCartney

127 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-43, 49-55 and 57-59, and 4 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
ANOTHER DAY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 90.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 112 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-27.

CHORUS
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHJAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Day?

122 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 hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 90.

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