Cherish The Day - Official - 1993 · sade

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

80 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

89

LENGTH

4:25

DIFFICULTY

69/100

hi-hat through bars 2-34, snare through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-89.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 53-55 and 68-85 -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |ox-x-x-x-x-x-xox|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-----xx--x-x|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x---|

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part E and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part F and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 61-86 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.