Day After Day · Badfinger

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 24-30, and 8 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DAY AFTER DAY · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 42, 50, 54, 59, 61 and 3 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-38.

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

Questions

What BPM is Day After Day?

100 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 Day After Day hard to play on drums?

34 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 After Day?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 42, 50, 54, 59, 61 and 3 more.

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