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Closer Than You Think · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closer Than You Think on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-34, silence through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-45, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|----x--x----x-x-|
BD |xx-x--x--xx--x--|xx-x--x--xx--x-x|
Closer Than You Think -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED