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Beautiful Day · U2

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
4 groovesBDS6S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beautiful Day on drums

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

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
25/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-76, silence through bars 77-84, snare through bars 85-92, silence through bars 93-96 and snare through bars 97-128.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Beautiful Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B, D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 37-128 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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