From This Day · Machine Head

107 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 39-41, and 7 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FROM THIS DAY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34 and 9 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-107.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGQBJD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From This Day?

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 From This Day hard to play on drums?

64 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?

107 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 From This Day?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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