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Cherish The Day · Sade

EXERCISE 3 OF 6
Groove C
96 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cherish The Day on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 2-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-24 and 26-36, and 9 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |ox-x-x-x-x-x-xox|
SD |-xx-x-------x---|
BD |x--x-----xx-----|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x---|
Cherish The Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cherish The Day?

80 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 Cherish The Day hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 4 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED