Closer Than You Think · A Day To Remember

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-14, 23-34 and 47-53, and 10 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CLOSER THAN YOU THINK · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 46, 54, 58, 60, 64, 66 and 5 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 9 sections: 73 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-34.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closer Than You Think?

90 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 Closer Than You Think hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Closer Than You Think?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 46, 54, 58, 60, 64, 66 and 5 more.

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