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Another Day · Paul McCartney

EXERCISE 4 OF 20
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 4-6)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Day on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-25, toms through bars 26-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-71, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----r-----r-|
BD |x-----x-----|
HF |--------x---|
Another Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- H, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED