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Day 1 · Red Velvet

Day 1 · Red Velvet
EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove K -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
12 groovesKDGBR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Day 1 on drums

145 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-142 and silence through bars 143-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-55, 84-95 and 115-126 -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    44               45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-------|
Day 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 43, 64, 65, 67, 83 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-47 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-75 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-102 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Day 1?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Day 1 hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Day 1?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 19, 43, 64, 65, 67, 83 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED