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Day In Day Out · Architects

EXERCISE 15 OF 66
Groove I -- Part I
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PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AB
PART AF
CHORUS 3
13 groovesNSIAFQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Day In Day Out on drums

143 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-22, hi-hat through bars 23-28, snare through bars 29-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-36, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 12 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 15, 20, 28, 36, 44 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- T, N, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part S3 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-15 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-17 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-87 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Day In Day Out?

182 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 In Day Out hard to play on drums?

49 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 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 In Day Out?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 15, 20, 28, 36, 44 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED