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Day Tripper · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDEKFH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Day Tripper on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-46, snare through bars 47-52, hi-hat through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-79, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-18, 30-38 and 62-70 -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Day Tripper -- 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 8, 28, 60, 86, 88, 90 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-46 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-61 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-93 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Day Tripper?

138 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 Tripper hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Tripper?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 28, 60, 86, 88, 90 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED