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Daylight Dies · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 25 OF 57
Groove R -- Part R
101 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
PART G
PART R
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOBGAAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Daylight Dies on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:47 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 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
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-37, snare through bars 38-50, toms through bars 51-61, ride through bars 62-69, snare through bars 70-85 and silence through bars 86-97, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-64, 66-69 and 98-100, and 3 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------|
SD |x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Daylight Dies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 21, 37, 45, 51, 53 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- P, O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-77 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-86 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 89-107 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Daylight Dies?

90 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 Daylight Dies hard to play on drums?

53 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?

170 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Daylight Dies?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 13, 21, 37, 45, 51, 53 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED