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From This Day · Machine Head

EXERCISE 4 OF 49
Groove B -- Part B
30 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART Q
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGQBJD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From This Day on drums

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.

64 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
107
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-38 and snare through bars 39-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |xx-x-x--xx-x-x--|
From This Day -- 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 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-27 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-39 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-68 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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