Dawn · Marco Sfogli

177 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 4:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-52 and 64-65, and 24 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DAWN · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 41, 53, 57, 73, 89, 97 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 14 sections: 105 keep time, 16 are fills, 35 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-40.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART N
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDNCA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dawn?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Dawn hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dawn?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 41, 53, 57, 73, 89, 97 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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