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First Day Of My Life · The Rasmus

First Day Of My Life · The Rasmus
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART A
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIADEMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play First Day Of My Life on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-56, ride through bars 57-66, hi-hat through bars 67-70 and ride through bars 71-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34 and 57-63, and 5 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x---x---x--x-|
First Day Of My Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 25, 33, 47 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-26 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-48 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is First Day Of My Life?

110 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 First Day Of My Life 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 First Day Of My Life?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 25, 33, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED