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Ever And A Day · AFI

EXERCISE 27 OF 50
Join Part L to Part P (bars 47-49)
91 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART P
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ever And A Day on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, ride through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-64, ride through bars 65-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-97, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    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-----|
Ever And A Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-45 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-48 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-34 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-41 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-72 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-68 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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