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Daylight · Crystal Lake

EXERCISE 23 OF 91
Run H1 · Part H (bars 19-29)
69 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AK
PART AP
PART S
OUTRO 2
13 groovesOABBCAKC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Daylight on drums

173 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-51, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-34, 37-40 and 83-88, and 3 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x---x-|
Daylight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 46, 47, 48 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- O, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BC -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Daylight?

190 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 Daylight hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Daylight?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 14, 16, 46, 47, 48 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED