Daylight · David Kushner

32 bars, 2:00, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare and kick and nothing else.

PopAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
32
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 64 BPM
DAYLIGHT · BAR 26
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

32 bars across 4 sections: 14 keep time, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS3BAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Daylight?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Daylight hard to play on drums?

26 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

32 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 32 BARS ANALYSED
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