ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Day 69 on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 113 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 89
LENGTH: 3:08
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 24, and 6 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Day 69 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Day 69?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Day 69 hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 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 69?

15 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED