Ever And A Day · AFI

112 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 35-36 and 63-64, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
EVER AND A DAY · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 32, 36, 62, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART D
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGLADS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ever And A Day?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ever And A Day hard to play on drums?

58 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ever And A Day?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 32, 36, 62, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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