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Day Eleven: Love · Ayreon

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS8EIBL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Day Eleven: Love on drums

69 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 4:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 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
6/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-19, ride through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-33, ride through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-42, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 13 and 15, and 5 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------------------------x-----------------|
BD |------------x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----------------x-----|
Day Eleven: Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 28 and 33.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-43 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Day Eleven: Love?

90 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Eleven: Love hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Day Eleven: Love?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 28 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED