Beautiful Day · U2

128 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-31, 41-55 and 73-76, and 1 more place -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BEAUTIFUL DAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 56 and 96.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 108 keep time, 3 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-128.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
4 groovesBDS6S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beautiful Day?

140 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 Beautiful Day hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Beautiful Day?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 56 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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